Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related to an ultra-reliable--and yet still not reliable enough--component.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by members of the Oxide team: Nathanael Huffman, Alan Hanson, Cliff Biffle, Eric Aasen, Robert "RFK" Keith, and Jordan Hendricks.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Oxide RFD 630: BMR491 Glitch Mitigation Plan
• RFK's report
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Oxide raised a truckload of capital a few weeks ago to fund the business for the foreseeable future. Bryan and Steve describe the raise, and Adam poses the best the best (and worst) questions scraped from Hacker News.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck.

Previously on Oxide and Friends:

• OxF s01e25 - Tales from the Bringup Lab
• OxF s04e30 - Intel after Gelsinger
• OxF s05e24 - Oxide’s $100M Series B
• OxF s02e18 - Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria
• OxF s05e28 - Systems Software in the Large

Mentioned during the show:

• Oxide Blog: Our $200M Series C
• Oxide is hiring!

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Evan Ratliff, journalist and podcaster, joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his extraordinary podcast, Shell Game, in which he started a company staffed exclusively by agentic AI.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Evan Ratliff.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Shell Game
• Evan on This American Life
• MIT Review: Moltbook was peak AI theater
• "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!"
• The Startup Chronicles - HurumoAI
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