Scott Hanselman gave a terrific talk about the promises of tech: connection, convenience and creativity. Did it deliver? Scott joins Bryan and Adam to discuss... and also wander around as one expects from an Oxide and Friends episode.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Scott Hanselman.

Past episodes mentioned:

• OxF s01e12 - A Brief History of Talking Computers
• OxF s02e18 - Books in the Box Redux
• OxF s05e10 - Lip‑Bu Tan’s Intel

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Scott's talk: Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?

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Oxide raised its $100M Series B round of venture capital. Oxide's founders, Bryan and Steve, answer questions selected by Adam from social media about the round, the company, and the future.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide CEO, the man, the myth, the legend, Steve Tuck.

Previous episodes mentioned:

• OxF s05e10 - Lip‑Bu Tan’s Intel
• OxF s03e04 - Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
• OxF s04e27 - Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)
• OxF s05e14 - Bringing up Cosmo

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• blog: Oxide's $100M Series B
• Hacker News thread
• PRs needed!

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Two years ago, the Oxide team encountered data corruption during a fairly simple network data transfer. The ensuing debugging sessions uncovered a truly bizarre bug involving CPU speculation! Bryan and Adam were joined by colleagues John and Rain to discuss the discovery and circuitous hunt to track down the bug.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included John Gallagher, and Rain Paharia.

Previous episodes mentioned:

• OxF s03e09 - Get You a State Machine for Great Good
• OxF s03e20 - Shipping the first Oxide rack: Tales from Manufacturing
• OxF s04e25 - RTO or GTFO
• OxF s02e38 - A Debugging Odyssey

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• The Update Framework
• Omicron Issue #3441 (Oxide Computer GitHub)
• Omicron Pull Request #3455 (Oxide Computer GitHub)
• stlouis Issue #454 (Oxide Computer GitHub)
• Changing psrset.out.txt (Oxide Computer)
• Commit 5ec2885322423c0cca0d006611b5c9ac94b0f588 (Oxide Computer)
• Omicron Pull Request #3560 (Oxide Computer GitHub)

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On the heels of Bryan's blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a team and entrepreneurs raising a round of capital, Bryan and Adam were joined by Robert Bogart to discuss his own experiences with both--and the life lesson accrued along the way.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Robert Bogart.
College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe

• OxF: Debugger‑Driven Development
• Anthony Ervin – Wikipedia
• Eddie Reese – Wikipedia
• Metaweb – Wikipedia

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Building systems software can be quite opaque, leading to the need for great debugging tools. At Oxide, we've found that debuggers can be even more valuable leading rather than following system development. Bryan and Adam talk with Oxide colleagues about how domain specific debugging tools help us build systems not only more robustly, but faster as well.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Dave Pacheco. John Gallagher, Alan Hanson, and Eliza Weisman.

Previous episodes mentioned:

• OxF: AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik
• OxF: The Saga of Sagas
• OxF: A Crate is Born
• OxF: The Network Behind the Network
• OxF: Bringing up Cosmo
• OxF: RIP USENIX ATC
• OxF: Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• omdb ground rules

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Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) Steve Klabnik made some new friends on the Internet with a blog entry on AI discourse. Bryan and Adam were joined by Steve to try to de-polarize the discussion a little.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Steve Klabnik, and valued listener, Julian Giamblanco (aka "Oatmealdealer").

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Steve's blog post: I am disappointed in the AI discourse
• OxF: A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel (The Ballers)
• OxF: Adversarial Machine Learning with Nicholas Carlini
• OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz ("the RFD 3 podcast episode")
• OxF: AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
• OxF: Reflecting on Founder Mode ("ego con")

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Late in 2024, an economics paper captured the attention of the world. AI, it claimed, had a tremendous impact on materials research, disproportionally benefitted the most productive, and--sadly--reduced job statisfaction. It now appears that the results are entirely fabricated! Ben Shindel joins Bryan and Adam to discuss.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Ben Shindel.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Ben's blog: AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
• OxF: Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud
• Topic
• [@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's Conundrum
• PRs needed!

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