Bryan Cantrill

Co-founder and CTO of @oxidecomputer.

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

Our $445M Series D -- and a wild milestone
https://t.co/TKN2m1FBXs

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

Those questions are TERRIBLE! True reversals I think are relatively rare -- much more common (especially for someone you want to interview!) is to be right on trajectory but wrong on timing. So I would ask for examples of that in one's past -- and then naturally extend that to the present: what are contrarian beliefs that you had that were later vindicated? What contrarian beliefs do you have now that have not yet been vindicated?

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

Feels like an appropriate Friday night movie this week

[Slopcrates @GhostOfSocrates]

Non sarcastic post alert.

I really enjoyed Bryan's talk here as he speaks on how systems become accreted over time. The accumulating complexity is something I've pointed out repeatedly this year as a danger to guard against especially as we scale into agentic coding delivery.

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

@ashleevance @HSVSphere @billylevin Introduced me to the world two decades ago with an on-the-nose metaphor that friends and family still won't let me forget!

[Oxide Computer Company @oxidecomputer]

Where Is the Oxide Rack Made? FAQ Friday #67 @BenchElec

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

@HSVSphere @billylevin Take that, @ashleevance!

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

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!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Tonight was fun and very spicy with @bcantrill and @CompleteSkeptic

It’s exactly what I hoped this Unplugged event would be and then some more

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

@thinkx @datadoghq @rust_nyc I'm not sure if the implicit comparison to Jobs should flatter or horrify me -- maybe a little of both?

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

Video for my @rust_nyc talk, "Code Matters: Reflections on Rust in the LLM Age", is now up:
https://t.co/hYTrl9rFaU

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

@film_girl She's the best!

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

If you can excuse the proud big brother, my sister's analysis of last night is superlative
https://t.co/b597JntUYu

[Ross Townsend - Ross The Rust Guy! @RossTheRustGuy]

For those who have been asking, the @rust_nyc talk with @bcantrill is now live on YouTube! https://t.co/E46BmgxmDu

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

I am surely not the only one who first learned of @jamestalarico from my (then) 18-year-old son -- whose take proved prophetic in many dimensions

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

Some have always stuck true to their principles

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

From the consent of the governed!

[Rep. Debbie Dingell @RepDebDingell]

There’s not enough Diet Coke in the world to make this Monday go by any faster.

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

No Oxide and Friends tonight -- but if you find yourself in San Francisco this week, you might still be able to join @gergely and me on Wednesday evening for a live chat!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A week from now, hosting two epic, free-to-attend events in the evening, in SF (registration required):

Wednesday (4 Nov): The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged with @CompleteSkeptic & @bcantrill

RSVP: https://t.co/nVTKRstPmv

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[Oxide Computer Company @oxidecomputer]

We couldn’t ask for a better partner 🤝

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A week from now, hosting two epic, free-to-attend events in the evening, in SF (registration required):

Wednesday (4 Nov): The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged with @CompleteSkeptic & @bcantrill

RSVP: https://t.co/nVTKRstPmv

(cont'd)

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

It's not, in fact, just a game. Related: fuck John Fisher forever.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

You may see an 81 year old man crying after waiting decades to see his favorite team win the World Series but I see a 15 year old kid living in the moment.