Most of today’s AI entrepreneurs and social media enthusiasts are young. AI is the first technology revolution they’ve lived through. They don’t remember how unbelievably exciting it was in the late 1970s to get your own computer, instead of struggling to get time on one of the vast machines chugging away in what used to […]

The following article was originally published on James Shore’s Successful Software blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. AI is great for making teams faster. But is it sustainable? What about maintainability, burnout, and lock-in? This is part 3 of my series on assessing AI’s impact on software development. In part 1, […]

The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. This essay is based on my conversation with Demetrios Brinkmann for AAIF Live, recorded before my keynote at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America in San Jose on October 23, 2026. It was edited and rearranged for […]

Microservices changed how we build software by breaking large applications into smaller, independently deployable services. That made systems easier to develop and scale, but it introduced a different class of problems: The behavior of the whole system got harder to see. AI agents are now following a similar path. A workflow that once lived inside […]

New frontier models arrived this week as investors showed signs of growing cautious about AI spending. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, we examined those developments, along with research into how models learn and the less visible costs of AI adoption. From unequal pricing across languages to the environmental impact of data […]

Remember back in 2019, when you had only a handful of language models to choose from, all with limited context windows? That world is gone, and it feels like a forgotten past. Today, flagship providers and open source projects compete across model families, sizes, capabilities, and deployment options. Coding harnesses seem to be heading in […]

At our recent Foo Camp, a number of people said something like, “I don’t want someone else’s code any more. I may have my agent take a look at it, but I want to extract just the parts that I want, and may rewrite even those in Rust. It’s just too easy to create just […]

When a new coding model comes out, I want to try it. New releases always carry a promise for me. Maybe it can handle a change that needed too much manual intervention before. Maybe it can find the problem an earlier model kept missing. Maybe it can handle some coding scenarios that my favorite model […]

This event summary was created by Claude with editing by Tim O’Reilly, based on a transcript of the conversation. Alex Komoroske is the CEO and a cofounder of Common Fabric, a public benefit corporation building the infrastructure for human-centric agentic computing. He spent more than a decade at Google as a product manager and director […]

The following article was originally published on James Shore’s Successful Software blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Is AI making software development faster? Most people I talk to say yes. But how much? What value are you getting for your money? Are there other ways of using AI that have a […]

Coauthored with Claude Security looms large as we enter November. There’s been a lot of bad news: a certificate authority with woefully inadequate private keys, vulnerabilities have been discovered (and exploited) in PHP and other widely used programs, and several organizations have detected Chinese open weight models misbehaving in several different ways. New models are […]

“Tush push” never appears in our roughly 265,000 play descriptions from 2021 through the current season. Neither does “brotherly shove,” and “sneak” turns up only twice. So when we asked our AI analyst to tackle “Ban the Tush Push” in the October 26 episode of The Monday Morning Agent, we first had to define the […]

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s Elevate blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. The way that I typically work is I have anywhere between five and ten agents working at the same time in parallel. There are going to be some tasks that I’m very happy to delegate fully […]

This event summary was created by Claude with light editing by Tim O’Reilly, based on a transcript of the event. On October 15, 2026, Tim O’Reilly hosted Andrew Odewahn, CTO of O’Reilly Media, for an hour-long episode of Live with Tim O’Reilly, the interview series streamed live on the O’Reilly learning platform. Andrew has been […]

AI agents dominated the news this week, from security exploits that unfolded in hours to new tools that let agents shop, manage transactions, and conduct scientific research. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, host Vicki Reyzelman of Akamai examined how these developments are testing existing security practices and creating new opportunities for […]