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Rain Paharia

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Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And for me, I think there's a way David put it that was really memorable.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

A code that uses LLMs extensively had better be the best freaking code on the planet.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

If you're doing this, all your code should be extremely tight.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

You should put all the work into refactoring, good documentation, all of these things that I think

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

you know, many of us feel like our, you know, maybe kind of slipped down our priority list.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

It is very helpful to think of these tools as not ways to improve the velocity of what you do, but ways to improve the quality of what you do.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And so I'm like, you know, if there's one thing that I think I want people to take away, it is like, slow down, right?

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like, don't just like, you know, spit out as much code as possible.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Instead, like,

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

use the LLM, right?

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Which is a tool there to be like, okay, you know, maybe let's refactor this.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Maybe let's, you know, split this up.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like there's so many things you can do to improve code quality along the way that will lead you to higher code quality than you would be able to do in the same amount of time.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

I mean, for me, it's just like, there are so many things that I feel like I've been able to do with this to increase rigor.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like my interest, like I've, you know, I've got a couple of things here and there, but like my interest as a professional is really focusing on rigor.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And my background is in dev tools where like correctness is like absolutely essential and non-negotiable.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And for me, it's like, okay, you know, there are so many more tests that I'm writing now.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

Like I, you know, the other day I was like,

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

I want to learn how to use Kani, which is this model checker for Rust.

Oxide and Friends
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

And I wanted to use that.