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Oxide and Friends

Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Jan 15, 2026 · 1h 33m

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What do LLMs mean for the future of software engineering? Will vibe-coded AI slop be the norm? Will software engineers simply be less in-demand? Rain and David join Bryan and Adam to discuss how rigorous use of LLMs can make for much more robust systems. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by Rain Paharia , and David Crespo . Previously, on Oxide and Friends: OxF s03e08 – Does a GPT future need software engineers OxF s04e04 – Helios OxF s05e28 – Systems Software in the Large OxF s04e20 – Pragmatic LLM Usage with Nicholas Carlini Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: The issue Bryan was fixing iddqd: the crate Rain built Ghostty David's…