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Adam Leventhal

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Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

That is kind of like, that is one pole.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And then the other pole, of course, is like, no, no, these things are, like, you should never use them.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

They shouldn't be used for anything.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

They're, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Yes, which is part of the reason I think that the term will die with this, because I think the term is gonna be associated with that lack of curiosity, but yes, absolutely.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And there are domains in which that lack of curiosity may be okay, but other domains in which it's not.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

So that's kind of the, those are the kind of the two poles.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And I think what we have, what we believe, what we've already seen,

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

is that there is a big, big, big middle ground.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And in particular, what we have seen is LLMs can actually be used to result in more rigorous engineering.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And it's actually not even that hard.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

I think that there's... And I've got...

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

I've got some specific and recent experience.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Adam, maybe I could lead off with that before I introduce our colleagues.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

So I have been exploring using Cloud Code to do kernel work.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

We've got our host operating system is Helios.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

It's an Illumos derivative.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And I had some like...

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

what I thought was a good, you know, you always have to want to have like a good first task for these things.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Just like when I picked up Rust, I wanted to find like the good, like what is the right thing to try Rust on?