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The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust
Jun 13, 2026
1h 28m 23s
This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris
Jun 9, 2026
1h 18m 27s
Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
May 27, 2026
1h 02m 26s
The Tale of Reverso
May 16, 2026
1h 06m 56s
AI in Computer Science Education
May 10, 2026
1h 29m 21s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/13/26 |  The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust | We love Rust for how much the compiler helps enforce safety. But sometimes it's up to us to uphold the complex--and often unclear--expectations of what constitutes safety on our own. Oxide colleague, Rain, joins Bryan and Adam to talk about the technical details of what it takes to impose safety on the hardest type of unsafe Rust.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest star, Rain Paharia,Previously on Oxide and Friends:OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM AgeOxF s03e01 - Predictions 2023!Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Oxide Blog: iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe RustPRs needed!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! | 1h 28m 23s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 |  This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris✨ | software restorationLLMs+3 | — | Oxide Computer CompanyGitHub+1 | Delaware | BattleTrisLLMs+5 | — | 1h 18m 27s | |
| 5/27/26 |  Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel✨ | baseballstartups+4 | Paul FreedmanBryan Carmel | Oakland BallersOxide | — | Oakland Ballersbaseball startup+5 | — | 1h 02m 26s | |
| 5/16/26 |  The Tale of Reverso✨ | manufacturing testinghardware engineering+4 | Bryan CantrillAdam Leventhal | ReversoOxide Computer Company | — | Reversomanufacturing+7 | — | 1h 06m 56s | |
| 5/10/26 |  AI in Computer Science Education✨ | AI in educationComputer Science+4 | Kathi FislerShriram Krishnamurthi | Large Language ModelsRegular Expressions+5 | — | AIComputer Science education+4 | — | 1h 29m 21s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images] episode artwork](https://img.transistorcdn.com/a7tOLScdFZVWVI085YjK19vvTBLMFG_uZS2gDBhzmLY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZTBj/MmJmMGUwNjk2ODA2/MWZhYzY2YThlYjA2/MTU0NS5wbmc.jpg) Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]✨ | mechanical engineeringrack-scale computer+3 | Elliott DonlonBrooks Willis+2 | Oxide Computer Company | — | mechanical engineeringrack-scale computer+5 | — | 1h 24m 31s | |
| 5/3/26 |  Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy?✨ | productivitysoftware engineering+3 | Gregorein | Oxide Computer Company | — | LLMsproductivity+5 | — | 1h 31m 24s | |
| 4/4/26 |  Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack✨ | Trust Quorumdistributed systems+3 | Andrew StoneFinch Foner | Oxide Computer CompanyOxide+1 | — | trustdistributed system+4 | — | 1h 26m 12s | |
| 3/18/26 |  When Nine Nines Isn't Enough✨ | hardware failuresultra-reliable components+3 | Nathanael HuffmanAlan Hanson+4 | Oxide Computer CompanyOxide+1 | — | hardware failuresOxide team+3 | — | 1h 24m 09s | |
| 2/27/26 |  Oxide's $200M Series C✨ | fundraisingventure capital+3 | Steve Tuck | Oxide Computer CompanyHacker News+3 | — | OxideSeries C+5 | — | 1h 45m 49s | |
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| 2/12/26 |  Shell Game with Evan Ratliff✨ | agentic AIpodcasting+4 | Evan Ratliff | MoltbookThis American Life+2 | Vancouver | Shell GameEvan Ratliff+5 | — | 1h 23m 23s | |
| 2/7/26 |  Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch✨ | software engineering historyreal-time distributed systems+5 | Grady Booch | IBMThe Sciences of the Artificial+2 | — | software engineeringGrady Booch+5 | — | 54m 52s | |
| 1/15/26 |  Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age✨ | LLMssoftware engineering+4 | Rain PahariaDavid Crespo | iddqdGhostty+8 | — | LLMssoftware engineering+5 | — | 1h 32m 36s | |
| 1/8/26 |  Predictions 2026!!✨ | predictionstechnology+3 | Simon WillisonSteve Klabnik+1 | Harvey.aiNvidia+2 | — | predictionsAI+6 | — | 1h 39m 06s | |
| 12/21/25 |  OxF 2025 Wrap-Up✨ | year in reviewpodcast highlights+5 | — | Oxide Computer CompanyRFD 576: Using LLMs at Oxide+16 | — | Oxide and Friends2025 wrap-up+6 | — | 1h 27m 51s | |
| 12/8/25 |  Death by Uptime✨ | failure modesdebugging+4 | Cliff BiffleMatt Keeter+1 | Oxide Computer Company | — | uptimedebugging+5 | — | 1h 00m 37s | |
| 11/26/25 |  Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug✨ | ZFS data corruptionZIL transaction reordering+4 | Matt Ahrens | ZFSOxide Computer Company | — | ZFSdata corruption+5 | — | 1h 21m 04s | |
| 11/22/25 |  Founder vs. Investor with Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann | Oxide founders, Bryan and Steve, as well as Oxide investor, Seth Winterroth, were joined by Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann, authors of the book Founder vs. Investor, discussing the collaboration and conflict in company formation. Adam was also present.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our guests included Liz Zalman, Jerry Neumann, Seth Winterroth (Oxide investor), and Steve Tuck (Oxide founder / CEO).Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Founder vs. InvestorTopic[@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's ConundrumPRs needed!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! | 1h 28m 37s | ||||||
| 11/7/25 |  Futurelock | We're big users of async Rust at Oxide, and recently we found (another) very odd and hard to debug pathology related to async Rust that we dubbed "Futurelock". Oxide engineers who diagnosed the problem join Bryan and Adam to describe Futurelock and discuss methods to identify and avoid it.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included our Oxide colleagues Dave Pacheco, John Gallagher, Rain Paharia. Sean Klein, and Eliza Weisman.Previously, on Oxide and Friends:OxF s05e22 - When Async Attacks!OxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry NeumannSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Oxide RFD 609: FuturelockPRs needed!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! | 1h 37m 52s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 |  Books in the Box V | Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next read.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by some guests noted below:Previously, on Oxide and Friends:OxF s05e06 - A Half‑Century of Silicon Valley with Randy ShoupOxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry NeumannOxF s04e03 - Fork in the Road for TerraformOxF s01e16 - The Books in the BoxOxF s02e18 - Books in the Box ReduxOxF s03e22 - Books in the Box IIIOxF s04e28 - Books in the Box IVOther Notes:Princeton Review: Happiest StudentsUMass Dining Named Best Campus Food by The Princeton ReviewCHM Oral HistoriesNight Rider (and K.I.T.T.)From Bryan and Adam (and others)The Mouse Driver ChroniclesFumbling the FutureSlingshotChip WarTechnological Revolutions and Financial Capital @bcantrill (economics book recommendation)Snow Crash (another Neal Stephenson book)The Big ShortReinventing The WheelEccentric Orbits (recommended by listener)Language Machines Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (recommended by listener)Molly White's **review ** of Read Write OwnCareless PeopleNOT A RECOMMENDATION If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (If you are Molly White, please destroy this for us!)Surreal Numbers by Knuth (recommended by listeners)From Oliver HermanOpen CircuitsSystems PerformanceWhy We're Getting PoorerTermination ShockFrom Tom LyonFrom Airline Reservations to Sonic the HedgehogSee also Systems We Love: Life of an Airline FlightThe War of Don Emmanuel's Nether PartsThe NVIDIA WayFrom Dan McDonaldInventing the RenaissanceCharles Sumner: Conscience of a NationIf 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! | 1h 20m 51s | ||||||
| 10/17/25 |  AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman | 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 TweetstormOxF s04e02 - Open Source LLMs with Simon WillisonOxF s05e18 - AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben ShindelSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Michael's home pageLeslie KaelblingComputing Up: Rich SuttonPRs needed!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! | 1h 20m 56s | ||||||
| 9/25/25 |  Systems Software in the Large | 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 LaterOxF s01e09 - Agile + 20OxF s04e11 - A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan CarmelSome 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 BallersBryan's talk: Debugging Under FireRoger Faulkner: "I'm not here to make it perfect; I'm here to make it better"Mid-recording earthquakeIf 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! | 1h 44m 57s | ||||||
| 9/19/25 |  Scaling Manufacturing | 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 1Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Topic[@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's ConundrumPRs needed!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! | 1h 30m 06s | ||||||
| 9/18/25 |  Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann | 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 AgePRs needed!Previous episodes mentioned:OxF s05e24 - Oxide’s $100M Series BOxF s05e04 - AI Disruption: DeepSeek and CerebrasIf 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! | 1h 25m 04s | ||||||
| 8/15/25 |  The Promises of Tech with Scott Hanselman | 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 ComputersOxF s02e18 - Books in the Box ReduxOxF s05e10 - Lip‑Bu Tan’s IntelSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Scott's talk: Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?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! | 1h 26m 00s | ||||||
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