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Mike Loukides

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Mike Loukides

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VP of Content Strategy at O’Reilly Media and editorial lead of O’Reilly Radar. Author and curator of the monthly Radar Trends to Watch digest — a six-section, ~30-item editorial roundup of the prior month’s tech news, with explicit emphasis on threads expected to compound (agents, MCP, harnesses, security, infrastructure, design). Long-time technical editor (Unix system programming, data science, AI books). Quoted by Julie Baron in Signals for 2026 on the “signs of the future in the present” signal-detection framing.

The wiki promoted Loukides to entity status in the 16 May 2026 batch ingest that landed all five of his Jan–May 2026 Radar Trends digests plus three other O’Reilly Radar articles. Loukides is the wiki’s first recurring-digest curator entity — his editorial weighting itself counts as a signal worth citing, distinct from any individual item in the digest.

Editorial moves the wiki has tracked

  • Genre shift in April 2026: from chronicling toward signal-detection. “News from the future” framing via William Gibson. Adopts scenario-planning language compatible with Webb’s strategic-foresight methodology.
  • AI co-authorship in May 2026: Claude added as named co-author. First time the digest carries an explicit human-AI co-byline — transparency from the publisher about AI-assisted curation.
  • Recurring threads: agent harnesses / MCP / Skills / OpenClaw / agent-runtimes-becoming-HaaS / prompt-injection-as-first-class-threat / model-release cadence (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral, Nemotron).

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