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The BugBash podcast is a lively look at all aspects of software reliability, by enthusiasts, for everyone.Each episode brings leading engineers and researchers together for deep dives on everything from formal methods to testing to observability to human factors. There’s concrete advice on best practices, and nuanced discussion of how these strategies combine to deliver software that works.And if you’re enjoying these conversations, check out the talks from BugBash 2025 on YouTube, and join us at BugBash 2026 on April 23-24, 2026, in Washington DC!
Antithesis hosts The BugBash Podcast, a technology show with 21 episodes published.
What happens when your open source library changes millions of lives? In this episode, we sit down with David MacIver, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, and Liam DeVoe — three generations of maintainers of Hypothesis, the property-bas
In this episode of the Bug Bash podcast, host David Wynn shares a collection of conversations recorded at Bug Bash 2026. 11 developers share their war stories about the most interesting bugs they've encountered and resol
You hit 100% test coverage, deploy to production, and the system still falls over. An old story, maybe aside from the 100% coverage percent part. In this episode, David sits down with Marco Primi and Sean Allen from the
Why do LLMs struggle to build complex architecture? According to Unmesh Joshi, Distinguished Engineer at ThoughtWorks, it often comes down to a lack of shared abstractions, of a shared vocabulary. Today he joins Will Wil
Can you stress-test a React UI completely hands-free? In this episode, Oskar Wickström and I are joined by Jonathan Chan to discuss the origins of Fuzzmap. From a janitor’s closet in Figma—where end-to-end tests once liv
With the "Agentic Era" coming online, teams are onboarding new AI "minions" into our codebases every thirty minutes. So a critical question emerges: Are we actually becoming more productive, or just more busy?Jessica Ker
Today we’re talking with Rain from Oxide Computing, tracing their journey from the massive, data-driven scale of Meta to the high-stakes, air-gapped world of shipping a 'cloud in a box'. We talk about moving from an envi
Everyone wants reliable software. But nobody wants to test messy legacy code. Today, Lewis Campbell from Outdata joins the show to share a practical approach for bringing deterministic simulation testing to existing syst
Building the rr replay debugger wasn't about academic purity. It was about survival. Today, creator Rob O'Callahan reveals the "necessary” complexity that makes time-travel debugging possible on Firefox. We dig into the
It’s been nine years since Designing Data-Intensive Applications became the standard text for distributed systems. Today, Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini join the show to pull back the curtain on the upcoming Second
Large Language Models can generate code in a flash, but that code is notoriously unreliable. Traditional unit tests often can’t put enough guardrails in place to ensure correctness… even if they’re written by the LLM its
Software testing research is exploding, but in practice, most companies' testing approaches seem stuck in the past. Where does that gap come from? It often boils down to the distance between academic promises and the pra
Integrating non-deterministic, non-durable elements like AI agents into our workflows tends to lead to a lot of do-overs. But restarting AI processes can be costly, burning through tokens and losing valuable progress. Wo
How do you test for bugs that only appear when a user clicks frantically, or when asynchronous data loads in an unexpected order? Standard UI tests often miss the subtle stuff that happens all the time in the stateful, d
AI coding assistants promise incredible speed, but what happens when you run straight into a wall of buggy code and technical debt? In this episode, Clare Sudbery, a software engineer with over 25 years of experience, di
Some bugs are so rare, they can take years to track down and fix. What if you could find and fix five of them per day ? For Joran Dirk Greef, the creator of the TigerBeetle database, that's not a wild dream — it's how hi
When is a bug not really a bug? In this episode, host David Wynn talks with SRE veteran Dan Slimmon about a radical idea: chasing perfect code might not be the best way to make your service reliable. Dan argues that once
Every map of a complex territory is inherently wrong, but without one, we're completely lost. So what happens when the territory is the vast, ever-changing landscape of distributed systems? In this episode, David Wynn si
Is it just a fact of life that software is broken? Our industry often operates as if the answer is "yes." We write tests, we fix bugs, but we seem to accept a certain level of failure as the cost of doing business. Our g
How do you prove the correctness of services that underpin a huge portion of the internet? At the scale of Amazon Web Services, traditional testing falls short. In this episode, Antithesis’ own Will Wilson and Ben Collin
Marco Primi
Antithesis Red Team
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Rain
Oxide Computing
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Lewis Campbell
Outdata
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David R. MacIver
Antithesis
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Rohan Padhye
Carnegie Mellon University
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