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Donald Sharp

Principal Engineer at NVIDIA and longtime Free Range Routing (FRRouting) maintainer who specializes in networking software and AI-assisted software development.

Aug 28, 2026

9:27
And I'm like, wait,
9:30
I think the other part, well, I think the other part of the equation is that as a software developer, my job is changing with LMS.
9:39
It is no longer the, um, programming that's the gate.
9:46
It's the reviewing that is the gate.
9:50
LLMs are a fire hose of information that I cannot keep up with, especially when you have the person who is partial, I would say partial, someone who has enough knowledge about networking to understand what they want and realize that the code doesn't do it.
10:10
And they can go tell the LLM here's the things I want you to do.
10:15
And because of that, you know, I am the one of the gatekeepers, Russ is a gatekeeper in the community and our job is swiftly changed into being full-time gatekeepers instead of programming with some gatekeeping on the side.

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41:26
There have been like, oh, if I send a BGP packet with the fourth bit from the right set on a Tuesday, when the BGP update, when the BGP peering session is in this state, I can cause it to crash.
20:04
That's crazy.
20:05
And he knew how to go through these back streets in Covington.
20:07
Nobody would see him.
20:08
But once he got out here by the Ozone, he went through the woods all the way and waded across the river.
20:17
Got him a stick and made him a crutch.
20:20
And, uh, he wound up going to Mr. Robert Wymer's grocery store out there.
20:24
There was a little bar in the back with one pool table.
24:20
Well, who was Carlos Cooper?
25:36
So as you, uh, reflect on your role in this podcast and you think about, uh, what you know as a former law enforcement officer, how do you feel about things right now when it comes to Roxanne's case?
25:50
I have a good feeling about the Roxanne case at this point after the podcast because of all the, uh, information that has been received.
25:58
Although we could use a little more, I think it's gonna help this case move along and I, I think we'll get an indictment and we'll go from there.
26:18
... that could not really happen today, could it?
26:20
Well, no, I don't think so.
26:23
Uh, and to be perfectly honest with you, Kim, I don't think that could happen.
26:26
But I, I, um, Henry Lee Lucas messed up a lot of cases for a lot of law enforcement agencies that will go unsolved because of him and two.
26:37
But this is one right here that, uh, the state police, Stephan Montgomery picked up and, and is making a good run on it.
17:32
If somebody asked you to describe Willie, like what he was like, who he was, how would you do that?
17:41
As far as, um, in his younger days, when I first met Willie, he tried to be, uh, like a normal teenager and fit in, but he couldn't really.
17:54
Uh, he was, he had a mean streak in him.
17:57
And if he got mad at a kid, he'd, he'd beat him up.
18:01
And I mean, and he might get beat up, but he didn't care.
18:05
It didn't make no difference.
18:06
I guess he was making his statement as being a bad guy then early on.

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27:53
Hmm.

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