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Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

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…

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