Tim O'Reilly

Super interesting : Reading Abundance from China. (via @noahpinion) afraw.substack.com/p/reading-abun…

DeepMind got a gold medal at the IMO on Friday afternoon. But they had to wait for marketing to approve the tweet — until Monday. @OpenAI shared theirs first at 1am on Saturday and stole the spotlight. In this game, speed > bureaucracy. Miss the moment, lose the narrative.

After listening to Andy Jassy’s comments  about using AI to deliver a better experience to customers and Ford CEO Jim Farley’s prediction of massive job losses from AI, it occurred to me that whether AI creates or destroys jobs depends on where companies are in the innovation…

GAVIN NEWSOM: To the NIMBY movement that's now being replaced by the YIMBY movement, go YIMBYs. Thank you for your abundant mindset. That’s a plug for @ezraklein. (And @DKThomp!!!)

Henry Farrell's rant about how science fiction has led Silicon Valley astray is well worth your time. Who knew that Hugo Gernsback (for whom science fiction's Hugo Award is named) was not only the founder of Astounding Science Fiction, but also a short lived magazine called…

Chelsea Troy's masterful expansion on our Live with Tim O'Reilly conversation, answering the questions we didn't get to, and saying more about the ones we did. She does it "more slowly" (as I put it in my intro to the show), so her points really stick the landing.…

The real benchmark for AI progress is whether it makes a real difference in people’s lives — in healthcare, education, and productivity. Thanks to @ycombinator for having me at AI Startup School.

My chart on the history of three infectious diseases —smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available.

The @oreillymedia May online conference on the future of coding with AI was a huge success, so Addy Osmani and I are doing it again on September 9, with a focus on coding for agentic AI. Fast moving innovation gives the lie to the idea that AI will put programmers out of work.…

The second guest on my new show Live with Tim O'Reilly is the inimitable Chelsea Troy, who leads the machine learning operations team at Mozilla, teaches computer science at the University of Chicago, and offers both interactive (live) and recorded video courses through the…

Really looking forward to chatting live with Steve Wilson today at 11am ET/8am PT. Steve is both incredibly excited about the possibilities of AI but also deeply concerned about the new vulnerabilities and attack surfaces it opens up. Let's hear what to do about it.…

My latest post on @OReillyMedia. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity. That idea is anathema to me. It’s also wrong, both morally and practically. The problems of integrating AI into our…

Last week, we held our first AI CodeCon, a four hour deep dive into the pros and cons of coding with AI (everything from "reawakened the joy of programming" to "try building an agent, and you’ll see how far we are from AGI"), as well as people sharing their AI coding workflows…

Just like AI, humans are shaped by the context we start with. If you care about the global economy and the future, @adamtooze.bsky.social's substack is a great thing to load into your context. Here's his explainer on trade. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-38…

There's some really fascinating stuff in this summary thread, even if you don't watch the video. #ADHD

I'm really looking forward to our free online conference on how AI is changing software development, starting in just about an hour. I'm co-hosting with Addy Osmani. We've got an amazing lineup, including Gergely Orosz, Chip Huyen, Camille Fournier, Jay Parikh, Chelsea Troy, Kent…

Important post by my colleagues at SSRC, Isobel Moure and Ilan Strauss: asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/is-the-inter… "It’s in everyone’s interest to start contending with the new economic reality of the internet under attack from AI services. These statistics [recently shared by Cloudflare CEO…