fighting slop with slop
Vaibhav Gupta
- When
- Tuesday, June 303:20 PM – 3:40 PM · 20 min
- Where
- Main StageSan Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
We haven't done a code review in two years. The last time I read every line of code in a PR was about six months ago. And we build a programming language with a runtime meant to replace V8. This is real engineering: compiler internals, runtime behavior, type systems, codegen, concurrency semantics, and FFIs across multiple languages. The thing that makes this possible is a technique we call "fight slop with slop" - every line of code is analyzed in depth by a sprawling toolchain of custom visualizers, linters, test snapshots and a whole bunch more. While the core language VM code has super high standards, a lot of these meta-tools are mostly vibe-coded. I'll dive deep into all the tactical things we've built, and how to adopt "fight slop with slop" in your own team
Speaker
CEO, Boundary
Vaibhav Gupta is the co-founder at Boundary and building BAML, a new programming language that's agent first. Previously at D. E. Shaw, Google, and Microsoft. In his free time, Vaibhav dabbles in competitive table tennis and board games, and various aspects of compilers and VMs.
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