Join Luke Wroblewski and Ben Lorica as they talk about the future of software development. What happens when we have databases that are designed to interact with agents and language models rather than humans? We’re starting to see what that world will look like. It’s an exciting time to be a software developer. About the […]

The security landscape is undergoing yet another major shift, and nowhere was this more evident than at Black Hat USA 2025. As artificial intelligence (especially the agentic variety) becomes deeply embedded in enterprise systems, it’s creating both security challenges and opportunities. Here’s what security professionals need to know about this rapidly evolving landscape. AI systems—and […]

I’m really looking forward to our second O’Reilly AI Codecon, Coding for the Agentic World, which is happening on September 9, online from 8am to noon Pacific time, with a follow-on day of additional demos on September 16. But I’m also looking forward to how the AI market itself unfolds: the surprising twists and turns […]

This article is part of a series on the Sens-AI Framework—practical habits for learning and coding with AI. In “The Sens-AI Framework: Teaching Developers to Think with AI,” I introduced the concept of the rehash loop—that frustrating pattern where AI tools keep generating variations of the same wrong answer, no matter how you adjust your […]

For better or for worse, AI has colonized this list so thoroughly that AI itself is little more than a list of announcements about new or upgraded models. But there are other points of interest. Is it just a coincidence (possibly to do with BlackHat) that so much happened in security in the past month? […]

The following article comes from two blog posts by Drew Breunig: “How Long Contexts Fail” and “How to Fix Your Contexts.” Managing Your Context Is the Key to Successful Agents As frontier model context windows continue to grow,1 with many supporting up to 1 million tokens, I see many excited discussions about how long-context windows […]

MCP—the Model Context Protocol introduced by Anthropic in November 2024—is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources and development environments. It’s built for a future where every AI assistant is wired directly into your environment, where the model knows what files you have open, what text is selected, what you just typed, […]

Choosing the right LLM has become a full-time job. New models appear almost daily, each offering different capabilities, prices, and quirks, from reasoning strengths to cost efficiency to code generation. This competition creates strong incentives for AI labs to carve out a niche and gives new startups room to emerge, resulting in a fragmented landscape […]

Matt Garman’s statement that firing junior developers because AI can do their work is the “dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” has almost achieved meme status. I’ve seen it quoted everywhere. We agree. It’s a point we’ve made many times over the past few years. If we eliminate junior developers, where will the seniors come from? […]

The following is Part 3 of 3 from Addy Osmani’s original post “Context Engineering: Bringing Engineering Discipline to Parts.” Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 here. Context engineering is crucial, but it’s just one component of a larger stack needed to build full-fledged LLM applications—alongside things like control flow, model orchestration, tool integration, […]

Everyone is talking about agents: single agents and, increasingly, multi-agent systems. What kind of applications will we build with agents, and how will we build with them? How will agents communicate with each other effectively? Why do we need a protocol like A2A to specify how they communicate? Join Ben Lorica as he talks with […]

I remember once flying to a meeting in another country and working with a group of people to annotate a proposed standard. The convener projected a Word document on the screen and people called out proposed changes, which were then debated in the room before being adopted or adapted, added or subtracted. I kid you […]

As an acquisitions editor at O’Reilly, I spend considerable time tracking our authors’ digital footprints. Their social media posts, speaking engagements, and online thought leadership don’t just reflect expertise—they directly impact book sales and reveal promotional strategies worth replicating. Not surprisingly, some of our best-selling authors are social media mavens whose posting output is staggering. […]

Recent surveys point to a massive growth in AI-driven bots crawling the internet looking for APIs. While many of these have malicious intent, a growing number are well-meaning API consumers just trying to discover, consume, and benefit from existing APIs. And, increasingly, these API requests are coming from Model Context Protocol (MCP)-driven platforms designed to […]

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 wrong. Like maps, ideas and beliefs shape our experience of the world. The notion that AI is somehow unprecedented, that artificial […]