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Gergely Orosz

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1031 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And this is talking with like the greats of the industry who have lived through the Ken Beck, Martin Fowler, Grady Booch.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And they're all saying that they have seen change like this, like, for example, when they went from mainframes to microprocessors.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But it was throughout more like a decade, not a matter of a year or so, or maybe we're now at this point two or three years.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And they're all saying the same thing, that the change is faster.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

But yeah, as you say, it's very easy to rewrite history and say it was always obvious, but it's just hard to tell.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

So far with OpenCode, especially with OpenCode, you and the team have reached really good success.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

What are the things that comes to building products and your engineering principles that have not really changed from the early days or the ones that you've learned and you've stuck to them and it helped make OpenCode successful as well?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

What has helped you there?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

What has helped you to get this product sense better or figuring out?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Because it sounds like we talked a lot about thinking, about reflecting, about having one elegant solution that can solve multiple seemingly unrelated problems.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Can you...

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Let us in a little bit of how the OpenCode team today works.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

Like, tell us how many people there are, what kind of setup.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And maybe we can walk a recent feature that you or someone else launched or, like, was it even a team?

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And then how you also get this, like, immediate feedback.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

One thing that comes up, we didn't mention it a single time in this conversation, but elsewhere it often comes up, is taste.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

There's this notion or idea that one thing that AI is just very bad at and probably will stay bad at is having taste.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

And how as engineers, taste, taste, product sense, they're, I think, synonyms to some extent.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

In fact, I've even heard that Microsoft generally has a training for taste to get better at taste, which I'd love to see that one.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

What is your take on taste as a whole, as a concept?