Oxide and Friends

AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. Bryan and Adam were joined by Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi, professors of Computer Science at Brown, to discuss their experimental introductory course that strongly incorporates agentic programming. What do students take away from their "smoke the whole pack" approach?
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, and Will.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
OxF s5e29: AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman
Greenspun's tenth rule
Andy van Dam
Brown CS15 Tetris
Wesleyan Tetris
Generating Programs Trivially: Student Use of Large Language Models
Data-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education -- Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler
LLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly!
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Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide mechanical engineering team to talk the mechanical challenges of building a rack-scale computer, and--in particular--of scaling manufacturing from just a few racks to hundreds. NOTE: Keep an eye on the chapter art for the pictures under discussion.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide Colleagues Elliott Donlon, Brooks Willis, Doug Wibben, and Ben Williams.

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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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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