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Practical Loop Engineering
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…
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Getting Smarter, Not Just Faster
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…
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This Week in AI: Agents Rewrite the Rules
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…
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Who Governs What an Agent Learns?
The following article originally appeared on Tim O’Brien’s Medium blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I think we’re missing something in the conversation about agent security. We keep asking whether an agent has the right “identity” and…
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Cheap Code, Expensive Confidence
I recently used a coding agent to build Task Viewer, a small community helper for IBM Bob that we use internally at IBM. It’s a convenience plug-in to Bob, with no critical production role. Despite helping some users internally, for me it’s a real-world experiment on a project…
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The PHP Incident
The PHP security incident is now (almost) old news. The timeline looks something like this: In late August, Wiz Research discovered two serious remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP called PHP2Shell. They reported the vulnerabilities to the PHP team on August 24, which…
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Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth From AI?
The following article was originally published on James Shore’s Successful Software blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Software development has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of AI automation. One CIO I talked to recently, with 170 people in his…
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Are agent harnesses dying? What harness distillation changes.
The following article originally appeared on The Arize Blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Every time you think you’ve just got the hang of this AI thing, another thing gets declared “dead.” This week, it’s agent harnesses. Back in ancient history,…
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This Week in AI: AI’s Growing Pains
AI’s rapid expansion is creating problems across the industry, from chip shortages to autonomous agents that exceed their instructions. On the latest episode of This Week in AI, we examined those challenges alongside growing regulatory scrutiny and an emerging debate about…
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Soloists, Copy-Pasters, and Tourists
Spend a week with almost any infrastructure team in 2026 and you’ll see one AI subscription producing five very different results. One engineer opens 40 pull requests before lunch across repositories they haven’t touched in a year. Another ships a Terraform change they couldn’t…
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Owners, Not Renters: Raffi Krikorian on Open Source AI
Created by Claude with light editing by Tim O’Reilly Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO, joined Tim O’Reilly at our recent AI Codecon to talk about open source AI. Mozilla, of course, is the nonprofit that helped to define the open source revolution back in the late 1990s. Though…
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The Agentic Software Factory Hierarchy of Needs
The following article originally appeared on the Vanishing Gradients Substack and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Stripe’s Minions turn engineering requests into candidate pull requests. Ramp’s Inspect puts coding agents to work in the background, with…
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The Latest Anthropic Claude Models Contain AI Text Watermarks: What Does This Mean for You?
If you’re an instructor for the O’Reilly live training platform, you’ve got to be prepared for the unexpected. As a developer I think we all can understand the situation when a demo (you know, the one that you’ve tested a thousand times on your machine) easily decides on its own…
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The State of AI Security: Threats, Tools, and Skills Gaps
Artificial intelligence has changed cybersecurity permanently. While OpenAI’s inadvertent attack on Hugging Face brought AI-generated attacks to everyone’s attention, AI has been on security professionals’ radar for a long time. AI makes attacks possible at a scale that was hard…
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The Second-User Test
In my work with G7–G12 students at Force Academy, a research initiative in Chongqing, I sometimes take a project that appears to be finished and give another student responsibility for using, checking, or modifying it. The handoff is a test of understanding: Can the work still…
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Building an AI Analyst, One Football Argument at a Time
One of my biggest pet peeves is the Monday morning quarterback, the person who second-guesses every coaching decision after the fact. In The Monday Morning Agent, we’re building one that actually checks the data. Every other Monday, I’ll take an argument NFL fans can’t stop…