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| Site | https://ahl.dtrace.org |
Have you heard? Oxide raised a $200M Series C (on top of our $100M Series B 6 months earlier)! On this week's Oxide and Friends, @sdtuck and @bcantrill talk about the raise, and answer the wicked, wise, and simple questions from Hacker News.
On last night's Oxide and Friend, @bcantrill and I were so grateful to be joined by Evan Ratliff to discuss his incredible, mesmerizing podcast "Shell Game" in which he starts a company, staffed entirely by agentic AIs. I hope you enjoy the conversation half as much as we did!
Okay, listen up Oxide fam: on Monday, @ahl and I will be joined by Evan Ratliff and Maty Bohacek from the extraordinary Shell Game podcast -- which gives you the rest of the weekend to binge listen to it:
(Both seasons are terrific, but if you only have one to listen to between now, and then, check out Season 2.)
Join us for what promises to be a fun discussion: Monday, 5p Pacific!
No Oxide and Friends today, BUT...
Next week @ahl and I will be joined by software engineering pioneer Grady Booch to talk about the past, present, and (especially!) future of software engineering. Join us, 5p Pacific next Monday, for what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging discussion!
On Monday @davidcrespo and @rain joined me and @bcantrill to talk about their uses of LLMs to build robust systems software.
LLMs are associated with vibecoding, they're a tool that can be harnessed for much more rigorous software engineering.. or as Rain put it
"Code that uses LLMs better be the best freakin' code on the planet. If you're doing this, all your code should be extremely tight. Slow down: don't just spit out as much code as possible." [1:17:55]
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/engineering-rigor-in-the-llm-age
LLMs are -- to put it euphemistically -- seeing increased use among software engineers. This has sparked much consternation about what this means for our engineering rigor, but we have found that prudent use of LLMs can, in fact, allow us to be much more rigorous in our engineering. Today, @ahl and I will be joined by Oxide engineers who have been at the forefront of using LLMs as tools to increase the rigor in their own work. Join us, 5p Pacific today!
Time for the annual predictions episode! @bcantrill and I were joined by frequent future-ologists Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, and @iangrunert to review past predictions and peer into the future. If any of these predictions come to fruition, it's going to be an interest 1, 3, or 6 years!
Simon Willison
Bryan Cantrill
