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Dax Raad

Dax Raad

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820 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Yeah, thanks for having me and thanks for coming all the way to Miami.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

that this itself is not enough like this itself will not get us to better software i've always said the easiest products are ones that you can use yourself and obviously we built open code so that our team can use it and it's like we are the customers of the product uh so we use it aggressively as much as anyone else can and of course it is we build it so we think it's useful and we use it every day and it's a critical part of our workflows but

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

All the old problems that I've always struggled with are still there.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I'm working as hard as I ever have.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I'm struggling as hard as much as I ever have.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So a lot of the job has become easier.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But yeah, it's a weird feeling because objectively stuff has become easier.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But then why am I like thinking as hard as I ever have?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

You know, it's a weird feeling to have both those things be true.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I mean, there's different, there's different life cycles, different companies.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

There's like pre-product market fit.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

There's achieved product market fit, which is kind of where we are.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And there's companies that are like,

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

have had probably market fit for like a decade.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And I imagine that things look very different across these three.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

For us, pre-private market fit, to me, it doesn't really help that much because you're trying to figure out what you should be doing.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And yeah, like maybe it helps you swing a lot, but I've always thought it's better to think a lot instead of swinging a lot.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I think you can eliminate a lot of ideas or directions just by, you know, spending a lot of time in your head and with your team talking.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Obviously, AI doesn't speed that part up.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

We're at the phase where we've achieved product-market fit.

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