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Spill the tea

Talkat RoachFest London 2026 · on Thursday, 2026-06-25· [engineering-leadership]
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No-slides, no-filter session of hot takes and concrete anecdotes: code generation using Claude code restarts a hands-on hobby and produces surprisingly reliable output, but LLM calls incur unreliable latencies and ballooning costs and require verification; database marketing often touts claims of ACID without specifying isolation levels (defaults like read‑committed cause subtle correctness bugs); CockroachDB name stays defended as a net positive with real enterprise recognition and customer billing workarounds.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:11Coding to AI-assisted development
  3. 3:34AI’s future database demands
  4. 6:03Spill the tea game begins
  5. 8:29Debunking vendor claims
  6. 10:11Tech buzzwords to eliminate
  7. 11:15AI projects unlikely to survive
  8. 14:24LLM infrastructure mistakes
  9. 15:47Oracle’s legacy response
  10. 16:31Why CockroachDB’s name
  11. 17:54Social media comments
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