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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

So I associate it to a much bigger, beefier computer.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

That has many Tmux sessions going, one for each project, NeoVim as my editor, and then OpenCode.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

It's usually split in half, so NeoVim on the left, OpenCode on the right, and I'm going between the two.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So yeah, Tmux, Arch, NeoVim, OpenCode.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Yeah, I think I'll tell you something that I've heard.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And I think on one hand, this makes sense.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

On the other hand, I'm not too sure about it.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I think these teams are now looking at themselves as, okay, what's the role of an engineer now?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

If you're not going to write the code, what do you do?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Your role maybe is to figure out how to make it easy to ship code that is

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

to safely ship code, right?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Set up guardrails so that someone prompts an agent to do something, it's not introducing a bug.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Make sure your testing story is good.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Make sure there's proper conventions and patterns in your code base that agents can follow so they're not adding something that's really crazy.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So your role ends up being more like, how do I set up the right guardrails to make it so someone that

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

is using an agent can kind of blindly ship something that works well.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Whether it's another engineer, it could be your marketing team that is trying to ship a change to your website.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

How do you make it safer to make changes?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And this is like the novel way that everyone is kind of looking at engineering teams.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

The thing that I find interesting is that that's not novel.