LLMs have had a dramatic impact on education. There are obvious reasons for concern, but what about the less obvious opportunities afforded by LLMs? Bryan and Adam were joined by Michael Littman, professor at Brown University and Associate Provost for AI, to talk about his role advising the university on productive, innovative, creative uses for AI in higher education.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Michael Littman.

Previous, on Oxide and Friends:

• OxF s01e18 - Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm
• OxF s04e02 - Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
• OxF s05e18 - AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel

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

• Michael's home page
• Leslie Kaelbling
• Computing Up: Rich Sutton
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Dave Pacheco is leading Oxide's multi-year effort around full-system update. He recently gave a talk about his experience leading that project, the complexities of designing the system and organizing the team. Dave, Bryan, and Adam discuss the project, the many sources of leadership, and the often underestimated peril of "organizational procrastination".

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Dave Pacheco.

Previously on OxF:

• OxF s05e21 - Rebooting a Datacenter: A Decade Later
• OxF s01e09 - Agile + 20
• OxF s04e11 - A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel

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

• Dave's talk: Path to self-service update (slides)
• Fire trucks dousing the champion Ballers
• Bryan's talk: Debugging Under Fire
• Roger Faulkner: "I'm not here to make it perfect; I'm here to make it better"
• Mid-recording earthquake

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide manufacturing team to talk about all that goes into ramping up production, from people and processes to expanding the team and refining inefficiencies. It's a great problem to have!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, CJ Mendes, Kirstin Neira, Erik Anderson, Aaron Hartwig, and Doug Wibben.

Previously on Oxide and Friends...

• OxF s03e20 - Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1

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

• Topic
• [@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's Conundrum
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Jerry Neumann joined Bryan and Adam to discuss his blog post from 2015, examining the work of Carlota Perez on technological revolutions. These waves have similarities, in particular: frenzy, bust, and deployment. Is AI a new wave or the culmination of the IT wave of the last 50 years?

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

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

• Jerry's 2015 blog post: The Deployment Age
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Previous episodes mentioned:

• OxF s05e24 - Oxide’s $100M Series B
• OxF s05e04 - AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras

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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
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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)

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!