Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Google Cloud AI Director Addy Osmani
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Approaches and considerations for building high-quality agents
Addy Osmani should be a familiar face to the O’Reilly community. He’s the cohost of our AI Codecon events, the author of Beyond Vibe Coding, Leading Effective Engineering Teams, The Effective Software Engineer, Web Performance Engineering in the Age of AI, Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, and Building Web Apps with Bolt, and a prolific blogger on Radar and with his own newsletter, Elevate. He’s also a longtime Googler who’s spent nearly 14 years building developer experiences in Chrome. Now he’s joining Google Cloud AI to help developers and businesses succeed with Gemini.
In the first episode of Live with Tim O’Reilly this year, Addy sits down with Tim to chat about the lessons he’s learned so far from his time at Google, why he’s feeling energized about his new role, and how it all connects to the excitement developers are feeling about the progress being made in agentic coding workflows—which incidentally is also the focus of our next AI Codecon, happening March 26. (The CFP will be open soon!) Addy and Tim will discuss context engineering, MCP and Skills, and the new discipline of agent engineering. They’ll cover how to mitigate unpredictable behavior in GenAI-based workflows; methods successful teams are already using to build high-quality agents; and other considerations, from product and go-to-market strategizing to developer relations, that organizations need to take into account. They’ll also give you a sneak peek at the upcoming AI Codecon.
Join Tim and Addy for a conversation on the ways AI is fundamentally changing how we build, ship, and scale software. As always, the talk will be guided by your questions. Register now.
Recommended prep or follow-up:
- Attend AI Codecon: Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI (live event)
- Read The Effective Software Engineer (early release book)
- Read Web Performance Engineering in the Age of AI (early release book)
- Watch AI Codecon: Coding for the Agentic World (video)
- Watch Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It (video)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Thursday, February 12, 2026, at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (60 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
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.
Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani is a director at Google Cloud AI. He is focused on helping developers and businesses succeed with Gemini, Vertex AI, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Gemini Enterprise, and the broader enterprise AI platform. Addy is the author of numerous books for O’Reilly, including Leading Effective Engineering Teams, Beyond Vibe Coding, and the forthcoming The Effective Software Engineer and Web Performance Engineering in the Age of AI.