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Rain Paharia

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Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Sure.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

So there's a couple of different things I can talk about here.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

One of them is kind of the first work that I did that was around May of last year.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And then the other one is like the work I did around December with like reorganizing types and stuff.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Which one should I go with?

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Yeah, yeah.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Um, yeah, so I guess, you know, like, as, as you pointed out the, a lot of the memes around, uh, you know, LLM based coding are, uh, you know, vibe coding, right.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

You don't pay attention to the code.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

You just like let yourself in the flow or whatever.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Right.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

I have to say personally speaking, that is exactly the opposite of the way I want to build software.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

For me, I want software to aim towards correctness.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

I really want high degree of rigor in my software.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

When I came into LLMs, I came in with like a huge amount of trepidation.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like I was like really worried about like, you know, I was just kind of trying it out.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Right.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And I was like, OK, you know, I want to make sure that everything looks good and so on.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

So the first use that I found that I thought, you know, was kind of really impactful was so I wrote this.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

We were having a bunch of issues at work around like, you know, how do we store things?

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