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Dax Raad

Dax Raad

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820 total appearances

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The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

It was good enough that most people couldn't really tell the difference.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And once we won enough share, then we went back and like tried to make our harness like good and smart and optimize and all those things.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But it was inverted from what everybody else was doing.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Everybody else was being like, you have to build the smartest harness and that's how you win.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

We have a mid-level harness, but we are the most used.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And now we're able to creep up and actually have the best harness and are also the most used.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So I think it was an inverted strategy that we did that other people didn't fully understand.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Oh, that was a referred desktop app.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So the desktop app, I would say, I wouldn't even say that was...

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

That was mostly a mistake on our part.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So I love terminal stuff.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I do all my work in the terminal.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So our numbers are, we're going to hit like 8 million monthly active users.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I don't think 8 million people should be using the terminal.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I think it's a little over, uh, we have like too many users for what the product is.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I think a lot of them would probably have a better experience on, uh,

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

on a gui and we understood that very early and so we were kind of experimenting with like a web app with a desktop app and uh so we're like this is probably gonna be the direction things go unfortunately we were right like that is like where things are going but we didn't like treat that project too like we should have treated it a lot more seriously and try to get it like uh out there way faster and thought a little bit harder on the technical stuff so yeah we just kind of picked stuff and we didn't like think too hard about it and uh it ultimately was a mistake and we're moving back to electron now

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Yeah, so initially we had that.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Because initially we were effectively a Cloud Code clone.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

If Cloud Code did it, we did it.