Tim O’Brien

Discursive Podcast

Technology EN ↓ 26 episodes

Each episode of Discursive takes one idea — from open source to FinOps, from AI agents to cloud cost models — and unpacks it through the lens of decades spent building the web, scaling infrastructure, and writing about how technology actually evolves. Recorded in Seattle, Discursive is a ten-minute conversation about where software has been and where it’s heading — across cloud, FinOps, open source, AI, and the culture that connects them.

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Tim O’Brien

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The Fork-It-and-Forget Decade 27.10.2025 26:26

In this episode, Tim O’Brien looks back at three decades of open source — from Unix labs in the 1990s to the chaotic Cambrian explosion of GitHub — and argues that we’re entering a new “Fork-It-and-Forget” era. Article this Episode Summarizes: https://medium.com/@tobrien/the-fork-it-and-forget-decade-dbb41008f961 Generative AI isn’t just coding; it’s starting to fork, patch, and remix open source...