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@oreilly.bsky.social"AI systems are gaining more autonomy while governments, companies, and researchers are still working out how much oversight they need."
This week’s AI news underscores a key reality: more capability also means more responsibility.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hCrk5w
@oreilly.bsky.socialIdentity verification can tell you who an AI agent is but not whether its request is safe.
“The signature proves who is making the request, not the intent behind it.”
Vicki Reyzelman on why securing AI agents requires more than identity checks: https://bit.ly/4rSN8gE
@oreilly.bsky.socialAre your engineering metrics measuring real value or just activity?
Join Rachel James, O’Reilly's Engineering Director, for LeadDev’s Oct. 22 panel: “The truth about engineering team performance in 2026.”
Register today: https://bit.ly/4rXSGX
@oreilly.bsky.socialOn 10/15, Andrew Odewahn will join @timoreilly.bsky.social to explore MCP, agent skills, stakeholder review, and how ongoing human-AI conversations can help organizations build and refine knowledge over time: https://bit.ly/4chZk4H
@oreilly.bsky.socialJoin host Chester Ismay every other Monday throughout the 2026 football season for The Monday Morning Agent, where you’ll use real-life data to settle enduring football debates while gradually building an AI data analyst capable of doing that on its own: https://bit.ly/4yGtZ4n
@oreilly.bsky.socialAI moves fast. Can we explain a past decision?
“Reconstructability is a system property established during execution, not inferred later from surviving artifacts.”
Monika Dvorackova’s #Radar article: https://bit.ly/3VYPbUx
@oreilly.bsky.socialLearn more about our Expert Intelligence, an organization-wide suite of tools that grounds enterprise AI in O’Reilly’s deep repository of practitioner knowledge and calls on job-specific agent skills to generate actionable guidance for real-world work: https://bit.ly/3VCPAvI
@oreilly.bsky.socialHow do you turn a base LLM into a useful assistant?
“But no amount of tooling fixes bad data or a reward model that scores the wrong things highly.”
Sharon Zhou walks through SFT, reward modeling, and PPO: https://bit.ly/3Vwwc3G
@oreilly.bsky.socialThat’s a wrap on six weeks of Software Architecture!
Participants explored patterns, distributed systems, evolutionary architecture, and more with Neal Ford and Mark Richards.
Get updates on future cohorts: https://bit.ly/4ym4WDQ
@oreilly.bsky.socialAI agents are becoming cheaper, more specialized, and more autonomous but accountability can’t be delegated.
“AI has infinite patience and is fundamentally probabilistic.”
Read Mike Loukides’s October #Radar roundup: https://bit.ly/4hIx2BL
@oreilly.bsky.socialOver 20 sessions with instructor Kesha Williams, you’ll build one thing: an AI code reviewer that runs in your CI pipeline, reads real pull requests, and posts inline comments at the exact file and line. Register to attend: https://bit.ly/4zfEM54
@oreilly.bsky.social“You don’t need to replace the systems that already handle your application logic to help them work with agents.”
Bruce Hopkins shows how to add an MCP layer around a stock-data API.
Read Michelle Smith’s #Radar article: https://bit.ly/3W7Kbgi
@oreilly.bsky.social“Prompt tuning and stronger models can improve the agent’s responses, but can’t provide guarantees for actions.”
Reliable agents need enforceable policies, narrowly scoped authority, and recoverable state.
Read Angie Jones’s #Radar article: https://bit.ly/4j1doDe
@oreilly.bsky.socialFive weeks down, one to go!
This week, our Software Architecture cohort dove into evolutionary architecture and Architecture as Code as they prepare for the final session.
Interested in future opportunities? Add your name: https://bit.ly/4ym4WDQ
@andrewstellman.bsky.socialReposted by @oreilly.bsky.socialFrom my @oreilly.bsky.social Radar article, “The AI Teaching Toolkit: Practical Guidance for Teams”
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@oreilly.bsky.socialCoding agents need project context without a courtroom transcript.
“Each governing ADR should describe the decision currently in force.”
Read Duncan Davidson’s article on keeping decision records useful for agents and humans: https://bit.ly/4rGXPD7
@oreilly.bsky.social“Deploying an agent means taking responsibility for the systems around it.”
As agents move faster and act with more autonomy boundaries become critical design choices.
Read Michelle Smith’s latest article: https://bit.ly/3Vt0tjF
@theexcelcookbook.bsky.socialReposted by @oreilly.bsky.socialOn October 7th, I’m running a new #OReilly course: AI-Powered Excel Charts.
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@techupskills.bsky.socialReposted by @oreilly.bsky.socialComing up in October from @techupskills.bsky.social , our popular @oreilly.bsky.social courses on #GitHub #Copilot & Implementing #AI #Agents in #Python. Also NFJS ones on Fine-Tuning Small AI Models, AI #Security & #Prompt Eng. Details in video & at techskillstransformations.com/training-cal... !
@brentclaster.bsky.socialReposted by @oreilly.bsky.socialComing up in October from @techupskills.bsky.social , our popular @oreilly.bsky.social courses on #GitHub #Copilot & Implementing #AI #Agents in #Python. Also NFJS ones on Fine-Tuning Small AI Models, AI #Security & #Prompt Eng. Details in video & at techskillstransformations.com/training-cal... !
