Inside the Code Factory: Ryan Carson Live with Tim O’Reilly
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Shipping products with nothing but your leadership and a team of agents
Ryan Carson has spent 25 years building developer communities, from global tech conferences to Treehouse, the online coding school that educated over a million students. Now he's a test case for the future he's been teaching. His latest startup, Untangle, an AI-powered divorce assistance platform, was built with a $2M seed round and no employees. Ryan is doing the engineering work with AI coding agents, developing multi-agent workflows with verification loops he calls a "Code Factory," and shipping product as a solo technical founder.
Join Ryan and Tim O'Reilly for a conversation about what happens when someone who taught a million people to code discovers that the definition of "coding" has fundamentally changed.
Recommended prep or follow-up:
- Watch How to Create a Team of Agents in OpenClaw and Ship Code with One Command (recorded session from AI Codecon: Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 8:00am PT / 11:00am ET
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (60 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
Ryan Carson
Ryan Carson is a founder, CEO, and developer with 25 years of experience building developer communities and startups. He’s successfully scaled and sold three companies—DropSend, Carsonified, and Treehouse—and helped over a million people learn to code. A 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year, Ryan is a frequent speaker on venture capital, scaling teams, and the future of AI-driven entrepreneurship.
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. He has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. He’s played a key role in shaping our understanding of the early commercialization of the internet, open source software, big data, and Web 2.0. He believes that the current AI moment is more significant than any of those. His 2017 book, WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, raised many of the concerns and opportunities about AI that we are wrestling with today. He writes regularly for O’Reilly Radar and on Asimov’s Addendum, his Substack about AI governance.