AI First Puts Humans First
While I prefer “AI native” to describe the product development approach centered on AI that we’re trying to encourage at O’Reilly, I’ve sometimes used the term “AI first” in my…
An Architecture of Participation for AI?
About six weeks ago, I sent an email to Satya Nadella complaining about the monolithic winner-takes-all architecture that Silicon Valley seems to envision for AI, contrasting it with “the architecture…
Generative AI in the Real World: The Startup Opportunity with Gabriela de Queiroz
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Takeaways from Coding with AI
I thought I’d offer a few takeaways and reflections based on last week’s first AI Codecon virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.…
Generative AI in the Real World: Securing AI with Steve Wilson
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International Women’s Day 2025
We’re at a crossroads in the US with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Opponents have neutralized the concept by reducing it to a series of letters that can be easily…
Passwords and their Discontents
This article originally appeared in Business Age. In commentary supplied to Business Age, I shot my mouth off saying that passwords are a poor solution for authenticating users–but none of…
The OpenAI Endgame
Since The New York Times sued OpenAI for infringing its copyrights by using Times content for training, everyone involved with AI has been wondering about the consequences. How will this…
Can Language Models Replace Compilers?
Kevlin Henney and I recently discussed whether automated code generation, using some future version of GitHub Copilot or the like, could ever replace higher-level languages. Specifically, could ChatGPT N (for…
Strawberry Fields Forever
Tim O’Reilly forwarded an excellent article about the OpenAI soap opera to me: Matt Levine’s “Money Stuff: Who Controls Open AI.” I’ll skip most of it, but something caught my…