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Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Google Docs Founders Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Aug 26

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/...

Lessons from the past on seeing—and creating—the future

We Are Only Beginning to Understand How to Use AI

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Aug 21

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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Lessons from Google Docs and Other Internet Innovations

Is AI a "Normal Technology"?

Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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Is AI unprecedented, or is it a “normal technology”?

Space economy - Making products for Earth and space

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Aug 3

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 ...

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Factories in Space

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Bet on or Against the Unicorns

Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

Also the meme-stock revival, home insurance and tokenized crypto treasury companies.

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jul 19

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

Reading Abundance from China

I organized a Chinese-language reading group for Abundance and we examined Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's ideals through the lens of China

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jul 16

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.

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Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve?

A Conversation with ChatGPT and Gemini About Job Losses from AI

Human Deep Learning in the Face of AI

Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 27

And here's my own intro to the show that I reference above: www.oreilly.com/radar/more-s...

"More Slowly"

How to survive the apocalypse: a conversation with Tim O’Reilly about Generative AI

Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 27

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...

Sunlight fire-hosed through my east facing window at 5:15 AM last Wednesday. I have learned, in my eleven Chicago years, to welcome this part of summer. I scraped up a pair of shorts, tromped downs…

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 25

Fast moving innovation gives the lie to the idea that AI will put programmers out of work. There's more to learn and do and create than ever. Send in your proposals!

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 25

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...

Coding for the Future Agentic World

Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 18

Where do you get that idea? There is no such plan. Everything we do is designed to continue to compensate authors.

Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 17

Chelsea's courses through the O'Reilly platform include Fundamentals of Technical Debt, Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Software Engineers, and Leveraging LLMs in Software Engineering. learning.oreilly.com/search/?q=ch...

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Chelsea Troy Live with Tim O’Reilly

Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 17

Chelsea is absolutely the best at saying "wait a minute" and cutting through the hype on all things AI. We'll be talking tomorrow morning, June 18, at 8 am Pacific. We'll be taking questions from the audience starting approximately halfway through the one-hour event. I hope to see you tomorrow!

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 17

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.

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AI and developer productivity, how AI changes the job, and more

Building Secure Code in the Age of Vibe Coding: Steve Wilson Live with Tim O’Reilly

Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · Jun 3

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.

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Navigate the security minefield of AI-assisted development—before it’s too late

AI First Puts Humans First

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · May 28

No, it means doing more, using humans augmented with AI to solve problems that were previously impossible, in ways that were previously unthinkable, and in ways that make our machine systems more attuned to the humans they are meant to serve.

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · May 28

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.

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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · May 28

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.

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