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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

Very overstimulating.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

If we let ourselves just get pulled by those forces, I don't think it results in anything good.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And I think what's also cool is cleaning stuff up is easier than ever.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Like you think of a new way in the past.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I would realize, oh, there's like a new pattern that we should be using.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And we would just start to use that stuff for stuff going forward.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But it was too much work to clean up all the old stuff.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But now you can clean up all the old stuff.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

It's like you can ask the agent to go implement a new pattern everywhere.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

It's very easy to clean up tech debt.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

It's very easy to like find new patterns and implement them across a code base.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Very easy to clean up like dead old patterns.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And yeah, you're right that there's no like direct result of doing that.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I think you can be a successful company without ever doing that.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

The way I think about it is there's a million ways to be a successful company.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

There's all these different companies that are successful out there.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

If you had your pick of any company you could work for, you probably wouldn't pick 99% of them.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So I want to make sure we build a place that we're happy to work at five years from now.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Our day-to-day is happy.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

We feel good.