Crisis Engineering Learn how to successfully emerge from complex crisis conditions with this practical, comprehensive guide.  "A book I wish I’d had in difficult times.” ...

We live in a world characterized by crisis after crisis, and need to improve our ability to respond. So I'm excited that Crisis Engineering, the truly indispensable book by my friends Marina Nitze, Mikey Dickerson, and matthew j weaver is coming out tomorrow. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/marin...

Not sure I agree with that. MCP servers have a lot in common with web servers, except that they are serving AI agents rather than browsers. There is a lot of sharing with the world to be done there. And skills are a whole new type of content object to be shared.

"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It A conversation with Harper Reed

"AI is not just a tool. It is a substrate that we shape...Creating a software product is increasingly like creating a document or an image or a piece of music. And that means that it can range from something throwaway to an enduring work of art." #Radar @timoreilly.bsky.social bit.ly/4dte0yS

"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It A conversation with Harper Reed

One of the takeaways from a mindblowing conversation with
Harper Reed: We have this idea that a product is a thing, when a product may now be a dynamic set of possibilities, co-created and constantly modified by our customers. www.oreilly.com/radar/convic...

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.

So good! A wonderful metaphor for what's going on in AI coding today. www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/w...

Except it's not a constitutional crisis, because everyone's just basically shrugging.
It's something MUCH worse! A constitutional collapse.

Steve Yegge Wants You to Stop Looking at Your Code A conversation about agent orchestration, AI vampires, and why your bike ride is all hills now

"The eight levels of coder evolution, the addictive pull of multi-agent workflows, grief and denial in the developer community, the bitter lesson, and why taste may be the last remaining competitive advantage. Here are some of the highlights." @timoreilly.bsky.social #Radar bit.ly/41e7kNn

Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

Very much worth reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

What should a dollar of proof be worth? Speculation versus fundamentals in modern wealth creation

A proposal jointly authored by me and Claude for an entirely new class of financial instrument designed to let the market keep betting on ambitious visions while creating a price for proof. timoreilly.substack.com/p/what-shoul...

Federal employees are not ok A new survey shows collapsing federal employee morale

New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees.
The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in.
The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

Mike Lee tweet. He's quote tweeting a tweet from "Leading Report" saying that Dems are now the favorites to win control of the Senate in 2026. Lee says: Let’s turn this around—by passing SAVE America Pass it on

Mike Lee quote tweeting MAGA influencer ALX saying: Senate GOP, this is your sign to start doing your job and stop subverting the will of the people. Pass the SAVE America Act. Lee says: Republicans will lose power—likely for a long time—if we don’t get SAVE America passed This shouldn’t be hard It is, but failure cannot be an option

Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."

Steve Yegge Wants You to Stop Looking at Your Code A conversation about agent orchestration, AI vampires, and why your bike ride is all hills now

Some of you might enjoy the rants from the incomparable Steve Yegge that I captured in the takeaway post from our 1 hour conversation earlier this week. One to two minute videos of the best ones are embedded in this post www.oreilly.com/radar/steve-...

Live with Tim O'Reilly - Free Event Series - O'Reilly Media A series of candid conversations designed to slow down, dig deeper, and share real insights you can build on.

Going live with Steve Yegge at 9 am pacific, noon eastern. Listen in for his take on the cutting edge of AI assisted software development. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...

Live with Tim O'Reilly - Free Event Series - O'Reilly Media A series of candid conversations designed to slow down, dig deeper, and share real insights you can build on.

I am going to be interviewing Steve Yegge on Live With Tim O'Reilly this coming Tuesday. I would love your help suggesting questions for Steve about the future of agentic software development. You are also all invited to join, and can ask your questions there too. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...

David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91

Dave was such a marvelous teacher and friend. I first met him when we were on the board I was the internet society together. But he was also an inspiration and a help in so many other ways. He will be missed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/t...

Addy is one of my favorite people to talk to about the future of software! I'm really looking forward to this conversation

A description of why political parties exist: not as a collection of people who share principles, but a set of people who propose to act together to achieve and hold power

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.

@timoreilly.bsky.social 👀

AI Codecon - Call for Proposals: Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI - March 2026 - O'Reilly Media The best developers are discovering that building with agents doesn't replace the need for craftsmanship; it demands new forms of it.

For our March event, hosted by @addyosmani.bsky.social and @timoreilly.bsky.social, we want war stories, demos of “background coding” workflows, and deep dives into how you are combining the rigor of traditional engineering with the flexibility of AI. Submit your proposal by 2/17: bit.ly/49mpTUN

AI and the Next Economy The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge. It’s a compelling story, especially if you’re the

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...

Live with Tim O'Reilly - Free Event Series - O'Reilly Media A series of candid conversations designed to slow down, dig deeper, and share real insights you can build on.

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...

Oops, my bad. We changed the time on this one from 8 am PT/11 am ET to 9 am PT/12 pm ET!

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...

No matter how intelligent the AI powering the chatbot might be, it has to be integrated with the systems and the workflow of the organization that deploys it. And you can’t build a new skyscraper on a crumbling foundation.

AI Integration Is the New Moat The electrical system warning light had gone on in my Kona EV over the weekend, and all the manual said was to take it to the dealer for evaluation. I first

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...

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Technologist Sam Newman How should infrastructure evolve for AI workloads?

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/...

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Google Docs Founders Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter Lessons from the past on seeing—and creating—the future

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/...

We Are Only Beginning to Understand How to Use AI Lessons from Google Docs and Other Internet Innovations

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!
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Is AI a "Normal Technology"? We think we see the world as it is, but in fact we see it through a thick fog of received knowledge and ideas, some of which are right and some of which are

And here are my takeaways from that conversation: www.oreilly.com/radar/is-ai-...

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan Is AI unprecedented, or is it a “normal technology”?

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.
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