Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

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Brought to You By: • Antithesis - verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests - and avoid bugs or outages. • WorkOS - Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. • turbopuffer - a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. - OpenCode is one of the fastest-growing AI developer tools around, surging in just a few months from roughly 650,000 monthly active users to nearly 8 million, and almost 1M daily active users. In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, we meet Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, for a discussion about the gaps in developer tooling that led him to build OpenCode, the advantages of open source, and why taste and engineering judgment matter even more as AI becomes a core part of software development.

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