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Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Google Cloud AI Director Addy Osmani

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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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.

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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, Inc. His original business plan was simply "interesting work for interesting people," and that's worked out pretty well. He publishes books, runs online conferences, invests in early-stage startups, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. He’s perhaps best known for his role in shaping big ideas like open source software, unconferences (Foo Camp), Web 2.0, and government as a platform. His 2017 book WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us explored the role of human agency in shaping the future in the face of the coming AI wave. These days, he’s focused on mechanism design for the human-AI economy. Mechanism design is sometimes described as “reverse game theory”, whereby you start with the outcome you want and then figure out what rules of the game will produce that outcome. He explores these ideas at the non-profit AI Disclosures Project, which he co-founded with Ilan Strauss. He writes frequently on Substack at the O’Reilly Radar, the AI Disclosures Project’s Asimov’s Addendum, and his own Conversations with AI.

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Addy Osmani

Addy Osmani is an engineering and evangelism leader who spent over 14 years at Google leading developer experience. In recent years his focus shifted to AI: Gemini's developer experience, agentic engineering, coding agents, harnesses, evals and benchmarks, and code quality, work that led into a Director role at Google Cloud AI running Cloud AI Developer Experience and Technical Evangelism, where he helped launch Google's agent developer platform (Agent Platform, Agent CLI, and Agent Studio). Earlier he led Chrome's Developer Experience, working on DevTools, Lighthouse, and Core Web Vitals.

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Skill covered

Artificial Intelligence (AI)