Tim O'Reilly
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
- From @adamtooze.bsky.social: The final paragraph of Joseph Schumpeter’s chapter-length introduction of his theory of democracy is such a banger. Source: J.A. Schumpter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. 1943.
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- I wrote a bit of a manifesto about the need for a circulatory AI economy. I'd love feedback on the piece, but more importantly, pointers to people who are doing interesting work on aspects of this problem. www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-and...
- I am today's guest on my own show. :-) I'm thinking about scenario planning for wildly different possible AI futures, how open source software will change with AI, and how to build a better AI economy, but you can Ask Me Anything, starting at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...
- Anthropic recently shocked Cursor by suddenly raising its prices. Researcher Anjali Shrivavastava argued that this wasn't price gouging, but a clue to a fundamental economic issue with token pricing. Join us tomorrow morning at 8 am PT to talk about her research. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...
- I had a great interaction with a customer service chatbot last week, and yet the customer service itself was no better. That left me thinking about why that was, and why making the AI better isn't the answer. www.oreilly.com/radar/integr...
- About to go live with Sam Newman, talking about the new economics of AI, how AI changes software architecture, and much more. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
- About to start Live with Tim O'Reilly, talking with the creators of Google Docs, about what their experience might teach us about rethinking UI for AI. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
- It's the 20th anniversary of the launch of Writely, which became Google Docs. Next Tuesday I'll be chatting with Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter, the founders of Writely, on what the leap they made might teach us about leaps ahead for AI. Join us! www.oreilly.com/radar/we-are...
- Tomorrow, on Live with Tim O'Reilly, I'll be talking with Arvind Narayanan of Princeton about his notion that AI is a "normal technology" rather than the beginning of an unprecedented singularity. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
- Seems like a good source on the state of the economy of the high frontier "Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport ... www.factoriesinspace.com
- Financial markets are increasingly just gambling. Why do their profits get capital gains treatment when there is no capital being provided to anyone producting anything. If we want investment in the real economy, this kind of stuff should be facing a pigovian tax. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
- Super interesting : Reading Abundance from China. (via @noahpinion) afraw.substack.com/p/reading-ab...
- Whether AI creates or destroys jobs depends on where companies are in the innovation cycle. This thought led me down a rabbit hole of talking with ChatGPT and Gemini about AI and enshittification. www.oreilly.com/radar/where-...
- 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. chelseatroy.com/2025/06/25/h...
- 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. www.oreilly.com/radar/coding...
- 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 through the O'Reilly platform. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
- Really looking forward to chatting 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. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
- 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. www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-fir...
- The problems of integrating AI into our businesses, our lives, and our society are indeed complicated. But whether you call it “AI native” or “AI first,” it does not mean embracing the cult of “economic efficiency” that reduces humans to a cost to be eliminated.
- I'm really looking forward to this. Steve has some very spicy things to say about the security or lack thereof of the leading AI models and applications built around them. I'm looking forward to having him get very specific about his concerns.
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- So many ads try to persuade the gullible of things that are false or overblown. A great ad says something that those in the know immediately recognize as true, and that others haven't yet discovered or thought about. This is a great ad. Kudos to Substack and its ad agency.
- Last week, we held our first AI CodeCon, a four hour deep dive into the pros and cons of coding with AI, as well as people sharing their AI coding workflows and favorite tools. Here are some of my takeaways, www.oreilly.com/radar/takeaw...
- Eye-popping graph from Adam Tooze confirms what we all knew: "Trump tariff uncertainty has been bad for US equity markets, but for the Mag7 the break came with DeepSeek." The AI investment boom turned into a bubble overnight as soon as DeepSeek demolished the promise of monopoly profits for AI.
- @stevenewman.bsky.social's new Golden Gate Institute for AI is sorely needed. secondthoughts.ai/p/founding-e...
- 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 and its place in the global economy. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
- Important post by my colleagues at SSRC, Isobel Moure and Ilan Strauss: open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...
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- haven't been following the various cases on AI and copyright, but ChatGPTiseatingtheworld does just that. Here's the fascinating analysis of the judge's questions in tomorrow's hearing on Kadrey v Meta. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/04/30/e...
- Great review of my son-in-law Isaiah Saxon's new movie from A24, The Legend of Ochi, which comes out nationwide this weekend. discussingfilm.net/2025/04/19/t...
- The Legend of Ochi is my son-in-law's movie, and it's amazing. It's opening in NY and LA this weekend, and that will shape how wide the release goes next week. So if you're in NY or LA, grab your tickets and go! www.instagram.com/p/DIjynf-yty...
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- My recent interview with Hugo Bowne-Anderson about AI and what I'm calling not "the end of programming" but "the end of programming as we know it." It's also available as a podcast; link in the comments. youtu.be/KlH65dwGH9A?...
- Great post by @addyosmani.bsky.social, my co-chair on @oreilly.bsky.social's upcoming May 8 online event about the future of software development. I've been writing about what AI needs to learn from internet protocols, and Addy makes it real with concrete examples of how MCP is doing that.
- It's hard to see how cutting off the source of US government revenue is going to make America great again. This is the kind of thing that you see in failed states. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
