Bryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware

Name: Bryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware
Uploaded: 2026-01-31T01:54:40Z
Duration: 1 h 22 min 50 s
Channel: Jane Street
Description: Bryan Cantrill argues against the separation of software and hardware, sharing low-level debugging stories from Oxide Computer Company.

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Presented by Bryan Cantrill, co-founder of Oxide Computer Company
An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Hardware Systems programming CPUs and computer architecture The tech industry Debugging

Bryan Cantrill argues against the separation of software and hardware, sharing low-level debugging stories from Oxide Computer Company.

In this hilarious tech talk / polemic, Bryan Cantrill unpacks his complex feelings about Marc Andreessen's essay "Why Software Is Eating The World". He dissects what software even is from Euclid to the IBM 1401, explains three gnarly bugs his startup Oxide encountered at the lowest levels of the stack, and demonstrates why Alan Kay was right: "People who are really serious about software do their own hardware." Chapters Talk begins Audience Q&A

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What people say. Recommended as an entertaining and insightful critique of the software-only mindset and a defense of co-designing hardware.

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Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware

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