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Using LLMs at Oxide

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694 points steveklabnik | 3 comments | 07 Dec 25 01:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.583s | source
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bgwalter ◴[07 Dec 25 02:24 UTC] No.46178634[source]▶
Cantrill jumps on every bandwagon. When he assisted in cancelling a Node developer (not a native English speaker) over pronouns he was following the Zeitgeist, now "Broadly speaking, LLM use is encouraged at Oxide."

He is a long way from Sun.

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1. sunshowers ◴[07 Dec 25 06:31 UTC] No.46179639[source]▶
I didn't know about that incident before starting at Oxide, but if I'd known about it, it absolutely would have attracted me. I've written a large amount of technical content and not once in over a decade have I needed to use he/him pronouns in it. Bryan was 100% correct.
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3. bgwalter ◴[07 Dec 25 16:19 UTC] No.46182817[source]▶
Joyent took funding from Peter Thiel. I have not seen attacks from Cantrill against Thiel for his political opinions, so he just punches down for street cred and goes against those he considers expendable.

What about Oxide? Oxide is funded by Eclipse ventures, which now installed a Trump friendly person:

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/vc-firm-eclipse-tap...