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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

And then in February, we had like one month of money left.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But then we also broke even at the same time.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Weirdly, though, we were all really calm about it.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

It just felt like something would work out.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And it did.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So that gave us time to kind of take a step back and think about

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

we can technically do whatever we want now, like what do we want to be doing?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And for a while, we're like, obviously, AI is a thing to work on this decade, especially if you're working in dev tools.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

We've been through waves before where like, there's a thing that happens.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And whenever a thing that's happening, it seems like it's not making a lot of sense.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Because whenever something that is has a lot of potential, it attracts a lot of investment.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

By its innate nature, most of that investment doesn't make sense.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So it's very easy to look at anything exciting that's happening and think, none of that makes sense.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I'm not going to participate in it.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But usually what happens is a few things in there make a lot of sense.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And if you just completely sit out, you just miss out on that.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

I think we've been through a few waves of kind of doing that, where we saw the AI thing and we're like, okay, a lot of this stuff is stupid, but there's definitely a real value here.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

we need to be doing something in it.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Uh, and we took a few swings at a few ideas and like a lot of them, we didn't even fully launch, uh, cause we just discovered they didn't make sense while we were working on it.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And then eventually we started to use cloud code as a team.