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Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026!

Your hosts are Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.

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

• RFD 576: Using LLMs at Oxide (hacker news comments)
• OxF: Oxide and Friends 6/2/2025 -- AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik (around 1:08:00)
• Shell Game podcast
• OxF s05e12 – Hell is other networks — April 4, 2025
  • "No Egress" was a ChatGPT joke!
• OxF s05e33 – A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug — November 26, 2025
• Simpsons scene deleted in syndication
• OxF s05e29 – AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman — October 17, 2025
• OxF s05e28 – Systems Software in the Large
• OxF s05e18 – AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel
• OxF s04e21 – Adventures in Data Corruption
• "Duck season, Fire!"
• MLG Airhorn aka "the jj airhorn"
• OxF s05e31 – Futurelock
• Laura's blog post: A disappearing Service Processor
• OxF s05e34 – Death by Uptime
• "Painfully concrete" - ChatGPT
• OxF s05e03 – Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi
• OxF s05e30 – RIP USENIX ATC
  • Team DTrace meets Dennis Richie, redux
• "Fart Boy"
• OxF s05e?? – Books in the Box V — The latest annual book recommendation episode.
• Oxide Bingo by John Holloway
• OxF s05e16 – Scaling Manufacturing
• OxF s05e22 – Founder vs. Investor
• OxF s05e27 – Character Limit
• Stretch goal for 2026: finally a C&D
• OxF s05e24 – Diving In
• Bryan's blog: College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe
• OxF s03e31 – Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
• OxF s04e06 – Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service
  • "Don't worry, Alan, no one will listen" -> one of our most popular episodes
• OxF s04e23 – RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide
• Office Space: Michael Bolton as AI em-dash
• "This isn't nostalgia, it's epistemology" - ChatGPT
• "Weaponized weariness" - ChatGPT
• "Dry Fatalism" - ChatGPT
• "Cougar turned in his wings..."
• OxF s05e16 – Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria
• Alexander Hamilton: amazing. Also the world's pre-eminent subtweeter and blogger?

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