People Work in Teams, AI Assistants in Silos
As I was waiting to start a recent episode of Live with Tim O’Reilly, I was talking with attendees in the live chat. Someone asked, “Where do you get your…
Context Engineering: Bringing Engineering Discipline to Prompts—Part 1
The following is Part 1 of 3 from Addy Osmani’s original post “Context Engineering: Bringing Engineering Discipline to Parts.”Context Engineering Tips:To get the best results from an AI, you need…
From REST to Reasoning: A Journey Through AI-First Architecture
We’ll start with a confession: Even after years of designing enterprise systems, AI architecture is still a moving target for us. The landscape shifts so fast that what feels cutting…
Unpacking Claude’s System Prompt
This article was initially published as two posts on Drew Breunig’s blog. He’s been kind enough to share them here.Back in May, Ásgeir Thor Johnson convinced Claude to give up…
Designing Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems with the A2A Protocol
It feels like every other AI announcement lately mentions “agents.” And already, the AI community has 2025 pegged as “the year of AI agents,” sometimes without much more detail than…
Vibe Coding, Vibe Checking, and Vibe Blogging
For the past decade and a half, I’ve been exploring the intersection of technology, education, and design as a professor of cognitive science and design at UC San Diego. Some…
Copyright-Aware AI: Let’s Make It So
On April 22, 2022, I received an out-of-the-blue text from Sam Altman inquiring about the possibility of training GPT-4 on O’Reilly books. We had a call a few days later…
The End of Programming as We Know It
There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It…
Beyond Prompt-and-Pray
TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) don’t deliver the reliability needed for production systems.The prompt-and-pray model—where business logic lives entirely in prompts—creates…
Quantum Error Correction Update 2024
Making quantum computers is really very difficult. The quantum bits, or qubits, are made up of superconducting circuits operating at thousands of a Kelvin above absolute zero, or individual atoms,…
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