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oxide.computer Our $445M Series D | Oxide Computer Company Our Series D round of financing. 
Really loved this event with @GergelyOrosz! If you were there, can I ask your help on something small?
As often happens at these kind of events, I ended up with a pack of folks afterwards talking about various things. After we had been discharged onto the street, an early-career engineer asked me for some professional advice: he is trying to navigate in an org with crushing LLM-use mandates -- and a daily LOC expectation. And (if I heard this correctly?!) he said that they had a mandate on the order of 30K lines per day (!!).
He was asking my advice on how to improve this situation, and I think my advice wasn't too helpful (namely, that he should ally himself with like-minded engineers -- and with the finance folks who are presumably looking at a jaw-dropping AI bill).
Upon further reflection, I wish I had asked a bunch more follow-up questions about his situation, because the 30K/day is so BONKERS (also, DID I hear him correctly?!).
Is there anyone who was there who can help connect me to him? (I think I know his employer -- but only because someone said it after he left.)
Alternatively, if you are suffering under similar LLM mandates, let me know -- I'd like to be in a position to offer better advice than "this too shall pass".
DMs are open -- and thanks!
As often happens at these kind of events, I ended up with a pack of folks afterwards talking about various things. After we had been discharged onto the street, an early-career engineer asked me for some professional advice: he is trying to navigate in an org with crushing LLM-use mandates -- and a daily LOC expectation. And (if I heard this correctly?!) he said that they had a mandate on the order of 30K lines per day (!!).
He was asking my advice on how to improve this situation, and I think my advice wasn't too helpful (namely, that he should ally himself with like-minded engineers -- and with the finance folks who are presumably looking at a jaw-dropping AI bill).
Upon further reflection, I wish I had asked a bunch more follow-up questions about his situation, because the 30K/day is so BONKERS (also, DID I hear him correctly?!).
Is there anyone who was there who can help connect me to him? (I think I know his employer -- but only because someone said it after he left.)
Alternatively, if you are suffering under similar LLM mandates, let me know -- I'd like to be in a position to offer better advice than "this too shall pass".
DMs are open -- and thanks!
Tonight was fun and very spicy with @bcantrill and @CompleteSkepticView quoted post on X
It’s exactly what I hoped this Unplugged event would be and then some more
Video for my @rust_nyc talk, "Code Matters: Reflections on Rust in the LLM Age", is now up:
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www.youtube.com Code Matters: Reflections on Rust in the LLM Age — Bryan Cantrill | Rust NYC Why does code still matter when LLMs can write it? Bryan Cantrill t... If you can excuse the proud big brother, my sister's analysis of last night is superlative
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