# OxF 2025 Wrap-Up

- Show: [Oxide and Friends](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends)
- Published: 2025-12-21
- Length: 1h 27m
- Episode: 35
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up
- Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/d3db2a53

## Summary

Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal of Oxide Computer Company review their 2025 podcast year, highlighting a shift toward debugging episodes like 'Death by Uptime' and 'Futurelock' as the dominant theme. They discuss the community's reaction to their 'No Egress' image, the use of LLMs for episode summaries, and the company's $100 million funding round. The hosts also reflect on specific episodes such as 'Holistic Engineering' and 'Scaling Manufacturing,' while noting the importance of their engineering culture and hiring processes.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=0) Introduction: 2025 Wrap-Up and RFD 576
- [3:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=180) Shell Game Podcast and Episode Count
- [6:53](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=413) Favorite Images: No Egress and AI Discourse
- [12:29](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=749) Simpsons Deep Cuts and ZFS Bug
- [19:45](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=1185) The Chime and MLG Airhorn
- [25:28](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=1528) Debugging Theme: Futurelock and Death by Uptime
- [36:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=2178) Holistic Engineering and Scaling Manufacturing
- [48:48](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=2928) Character Limit and AI in Higher Education
- [56:35](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=3395) Hiring Processes and Top Episodes
- [1:00:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2025-12-21-oxf-2025-wrap-up#t=3600) LLM Analysis and Gen X References

## Topics

- [Debugging & failure analysis](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/debugging-and-failure-analysis)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Hiring & workforce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/hiring-and-workforce)
- [Fundraising & investors](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/fundraising)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- Oxide Computer Company (company)
- Bryan Cantrill (other)
- Adam Leventhal (other)
- Steve Klabnik (other)
- ChatGPT (other)
- Gemini (other)
- ZFS (other)
- Futurelock (product)
- Cosmo (product)

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