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Dax Raad

Dax Raad

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820 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Like I'm like so missing my own bar and what I think, what I believe is when you hear me talk about quality and stuff and use my products, you're like, oh, it doesn't, he's like kind of ahead of what he's saying.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

That's because I'm still trying to get better at it.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So I look at products that are really good.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I'm still very inspired by them.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I still have heroes that I think just kind of do a great job at certain things.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And I know I have a long way to go to get there.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Yeah, yeah.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So I think in my space, in DevTools, I think Mitchell Hashimoto is an obvious one.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Our company is very similar or trying to be similar to theirs in that

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

All their products were open source.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

They became mass adopted.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Things like Terraform became the default.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

It's very hard to do something like that.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And it's well executed across the board in the microscopic, in the macro, the business model.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

His work with Ghosty has been really great.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

The architecture of it cares about every little detail and it shows up when you use the product.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And he's very good at product.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

He made a clip that's very similar to the thing we were just talking about where

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Every feature you ship, it's not about the features, it's about how it interacts with every existing feature.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And his work as a product person makes sense of all that.