Live with Tim O’Reilly

Harper Carroll is a computer scientist who built machine learning systems at Meta but she also describes herself as "born an actress from Manhattan." She’s combined those disparate parts of her background into a unique role as an AI educator, where she uses her magic superpower of making sense of AI to reach half a million people on social media and beyond. She has a knack for explaining...

DJ Patil co-coined the term "data scientist," served as America's first chief data scientist under President Obama, was chief scientist at LinkedIn, and has spent the past decade on the founding team at Devoted Health, where he's built the kind of data infrastructure that most organizations are still struggling to create. DJ’s been on a listening tour. Wherever he travels, he fin...

Ryan Carson has spent 25 years building developer communities, conferences, and Treehouse, which taught over a million people to code. His latest company, Untangle, is an AI-powered divorce assistant—and he’s building it entirely alone. Just $2 million in seed funding, his guidance, and a team of agents running while he sleeps. Ryan sat down with Tim to walk through the “code factory” powering Unt...

Longtime software engineer Steve Yegge has lately been exploring the limits of  vibe coding  with projects like  Beads , his coding agent memory system, and  Gas Town , a proof-of-concept agent orchestrator so complicated, expensive, and chaotic that he warned those interested NOT to use it. As Tim O’Reilly points out in his takeaways from this episode, “Steve has always been one of the most provo...

Addy Osmani should be a familiar face to the O’Reilly community. He’s the cohost of our AI Codecon events, the author of  Beyond Vibe Coding ,  Leading Effective Engineering Teams ,  The Effective Software Engineer ,  Web Performance Engineering in the Age of AI ,  Learning JavaScript Design Patterns , and  Building Web Apps with Bolt , and a prolific blogger on  Radar  and with his own newsletter...

In the year’s final  Live with Tim O’Reilly , Tim hosted an AMA to pull together some of the threads that have emerged during his conversations with guests who, as he put it, “know way more than me”—and think through how they may play out next year. “With AI, regardless of what happens with scaling, we now have a set of new capabilities that really challenge our thinking and our understanding abou...

Kent Beck’s career-long mission has been to improve software development. He created Extreme Programming back in the ’90s to address some of the issues that were slowing productivity. More recently, he’s been working on a series to help “tidy” development. Kent joined Tim to share his philosophy on tidying not just code but also the very human tasks of collaboration and teamwork, as well as his ap...

If the assumption that we’ve lived with for years that scale brings lower marginal costs isn’t true, we really have to rethink a lot of things. Anjali Shrivastava is an independent researcher and data scientist looking into the unit economics of AI’probing how the seemingly simple token unit of cost for generative AI services is actually highly variable, leading to hidden margin risks that undermi...

There may be a few people who are still unfamiliar with at least some aspect of Reid Hoffman’s long career—among other things, he’s a cofounder of LinkedIn, a partner at Greylock, the author of  Blitzscaling and Superagency , and the cohost of the podcasts  Masters of Scale and Possible . As Tim O’Reilly put it in his introductory remarks in this episode, “Reid has really been a force for good in...

Claire Vo, the founder of ChatPRD and host of the  How I AI  podcast, has a real knack for extracting and sharing practical tools, tips, and ideas that anyone can put to use today. In this episode, Claire sat down with Tim to share her perspective as a longtime product leader who began using AI to boost her own productivity and ended up turning it into a successful business. Claire sketched the or...

For years, technologist and consultant Sam Newman has helped enterprises come to grips with sticky issues in software architecture, and he’s been thinking deeply about how AI will reshape software engineering. He joined Tim for this episode of Live with Tim O’Reilly to explore the technological and organizational changes AI is already bringing about. As Sam pointed out, it’s chaotic out there. Sam...

When Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter built Writely—their browser-based word processor, which became the basis for Google Docs—they saw a future that most of us didn’t yet appreciate. It’s been 20 years since Sam, Steve, and Claudia launched the Writely beta. To celebrate that achievement, they joined Tim to reflect on the success of their revolutionary product and discuss what i...

AI boosters would have you believe that AI is such an unprecedented leap forward that it will change everything almost immediately, that the singularity is upon us. Princeton professor and author Arvind Narayanan begs to differ. Arvind and his coauthor Sayash Kapoor make the case in their recent paper “ AI as Normal Technology ” that, while AI is indeed a transformational technology, it’s far from...

AI has led us to this amazing inflection point where all of the old habits of product development and product management need to be rethought. As Google’s Marily Nika predicts, “All product managers will be AI product managers in the future.” So we need to plan for it now. On this episode of  Live with Tim O’Reilly , Marily sat down with Tim to discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming product...

AI companies are scraping content at unprecedented rates—with some platforms taking 1,500 pages for every visitor they send back, compared to Google’s historical 2-to-1 ratio—effectively breaking the basic value exchange that built the modern web. While this may be destroying the business model that has sustained online content creation for decades, it’s also turned the spotlight on some of the fl...

Do large language models make developers 26% more productive, as a paper recently claimed? Chelsea Troy, leader of Mozilla’s MLOps team and a lecturer in computer science at the University of Chicago, isn’t so sure. There’s so much hype right now—we need voices like Chelsea’s to cut through the noise and help us think a little bit more deeply about what programming actually requires. And that’s ju...

Steve Wilson’s day job is at cybersecurity firm Exabeam, where he’s the chief AI and product officer. He also founded and cochairs OWASP’s Gen AI Security Project and wrote  The Developer’s Playbook for Large Language Model Security . So he knows a thing or two about the ways AI is creating entirely new attack surfaces that most developers don’t even know exist. On this episode of  Live with Tim O...