Tim O'Reilly argues AI's killer app has not arrived yet
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Tim O'Reilly, writing on O'Reilly Radar, says AI's killer app may not have arrived yet.
He compares today's chatbots and coding agents with the browser and BASIC-era tools that preceded the breakthrough applications of earlier platform cycles, and argues that AI's timeline roughly matches those past cycles.
O'Reilly says the next wave of applications may be held back by missing mechanisms for payments, identity and accountability for agents.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Nov 11, 1:20 PM ET
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AITim O'Reilly argues that AI's killer app may not have arrived yet, comparing today's chatbots and coding agents with the browser and BASIC-era tools that came before the breakthrough applications. He says that AI's timeline roughly matches past platform cycles, and that missing mechanisms for payments, identity and accountability for agents may be holding back the next wave of applications.
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