Oxide and Friends

Brogrammer Garry Tan has been boasting about "writing" tens of thousands of lines of code each day as the paragon of productivity. Is this really the right way to think about building systems? Bryan and Adam were joined by Polish software engineer, Gregorein, who took a closer look into what Tan was generating to discuss what was found.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our guest (who we introduced a mere 4 minutes in) was gregorein.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Gregorein's twitter thread
Bryan's blog: The Peril of Laziness Lost
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The Oxide rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? Bryan and Adam were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to explore how Trust Quorum was designed, built, and verified.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Andrew Stone, and Finch Foner.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s03e17 - Software Verificationpalooza
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s05e20 - Debugger-Driven Development
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide RFD 238: Trust Quorum and Rack Unlock
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Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related to an ultra-reliable--and yet still not reliable enough--component.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by members of the Oxide team: Nathanael Huffman, Alan Hanson, Cliff Biffle, Eric Aasen, Robert "RFK" Keith, and Jordan Hendricks.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide RFD 630: BMR491 Glitch Mitigation Plan
RFK's report
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Oxide raised a truckload of capital a few weeks ago to fund the business for the foreseeable future. Bryan and Steve describe the raise, and Adam poses the best the best (and worst) questions scraped from Hacker News.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck.
Previously on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s01e25 - Tales from the Bringup Lab
OxF s04e30 - Intel after Gelsinger
OxF s05e24 - Oxide’s $100M Series B
OxF s02e18 - Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria
OxF s05e28 - Systems Software in the Large
Mentioned during the show:
Oxide Blog: Our $200M Series C
Oxide is hiring!
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Evan Ratliff, journalist and podcaster, joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his extraordinary podcast, Shell Game, in which he started a company staffed exclusively by agentic AI.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Evan Ratliff.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Shell Game
Evan on This American Life
MIT Review: Moltbook was peak AI theater
"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!"
The Startup Chronicles - HurumoAI
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