Dax Raad
OpenCode and SST co-founder, creator of the Zen coding model
OpenCode and SST co-founder, creator of the Zen coding model
Every podcast episode featuring Dax Raad that Attunex has found: 101 interviews and appearances across 20 shows between 2022 and 2026. Most often on How About Tomorrow? (78), Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats (2) and Chats with Kent C. Dodds (2). Follow Dax in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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EP. 416｜ AI 寫 Code 變快，思考卻變少了？專訪 OpenCode 創辦人 Dax Raad：百萬用戶背後，開源 AI 如何突圍？工程師的「產品品味」與技術債警訊！ 🚀💻 如果你在 2026 年的今天，每天都在用 AI 寫程式、享受著「一鍵生成整段代碼」的快感，那你一定要停下來聽聽這場最清醒的訪談！ 今天這集，我們要帶你深入拆解開源圈最火熱的對話——《OpenCode Dax…
Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, joins Scott and Wes to talk remote dev servers, OpenCode 2.0, and why his team is “addicted” to AI models they’re not even allowed to name yet. Show Notes 00:00…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：播客《Baseten》 Opencode Creator: Why the Future of AI Is Open-Source 原内容更新时间：2026-07-07 主持人 Madison 专程前往迈阿密，与开源编程工具 OpenCode 的联合创始人 Dax Raad 进行了一次面对面的交流。Dax Raad…
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Dax has spent years building tools developers actually use; on OpenCode he's thinking hard about product process while the space moves at breakneck speed. This episode is a practical look at product…
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Dax Raad is the founder of OpenCode, the open-source AI coding agent built for the terminal and focused on maximum developer context and productivity. In this episode, we explore how OpenCode is…
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom, I, Stewart Alsop, sit down with Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, for a wide-ranging conversation about open-source development, command-line interfaces, the rise of…
En este nuevo episodio de Tecnología Informal hablamos con Dax Raad, fundador de SST y una de las voces más influyentes en el mundo de los devtools. Con Dax repasamos su recorrido desde sus primeras…
This week, Robbie and Chuck talk with Dax Raad about his evolving career from software engineer to open-source advocate and content creator. They dive into his work on SST, explore the bizarre…
Dax Raad, known for his work on SST and the creator of OpenAuth, shares his passion for improving the developer experience with authentication and infrastructure. OpenAuth offers developers an…
Dax Raad, known for his strong opinions on Twitter, sat down for a chat about web dev, career moves, and building cool stuff. He's not afraid to throw some heat at popular tools like Next.js, though…
Dax is sick, but his voice sounds amazing so you should still listen, we streamed a basketball game in Dallas, rented a Lambo, went to Laracon 2024, muse on VPS complexity, InstantDB impressions,…
Adam's moved his office, the arbitrary nature of exercise, prepping for the Laracon basketball game, Dax explains breaking at the Olympics, Dax sliced off a nice piece of bacon, how you can email us,…
Today, we have Dax Raad on the show. Dax is a must-follow on tech Twitter, known for his blend of humor and insightful tech opinions. We talked a lot about SST, which is the infrastructure as code…
The eternal debate of freelance life vs being employed at a larger company, small teams vs big teams, b******t jobs, self driving cars are finally discussed, Twitter VC fights, politics and tech, and…
It's episode 100 time but don't worry, Adam's not being weird about it at all. We're thinking about how normies understand things like the Crowdstrike bug, Adam thinks the economy is fake, and Chris…
Adam is tired, Dax tries to help analyze Adam in a surprisingly kind way, struggling to fend off grifters, Terminal Coffee updates, and Rspack news. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in…
Matt chats with Adam and Dax about becoming a voice coach and how that's translated to creating courses and writing books for people wanting to learn TypeScript and coding, the differences between…
Taylor Otwell and Ryan Florence join us to talk about whether "full stack" is a term worth using in 2024, how Laravel differs from Rails, why there isn't a real JavaScript community, what Taylor…
The guest of this episode is Dax Raad, who is using local-first in multiple projects including the serverless deployment tool SST.dev, a healthcare app and an upcoming personal finance app. This…
Can you tell that Adam's moved his desk? We talk about how Adam's making banana ice cream, time travel possibilities, the opportunities afforded us as software engineers, being optimistic or a downer…
Dax has parenting advice for everyone, Adam worries about the point of even living, college as a scam, and theories on the anxious generation. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.…
Are Dax and Adam (and the rest of the Terminal.shop crew) drug dealers? We're talking about the coffee industry, what Terminal.shop is built on, the origin story of Terminal.shop, and how cool it…
Everyone's recovering from React Miami and the party at Dax's - oh and we launched a company for buying products like coffee in the terminal! Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.…
Adam's flying as you read this, and he's definitively not still sick. We're talking about Adam's internet being hacked, updates on our secret project, Cloudflare news, NextJS and Vercel benchmarking…
Adam tries on a chain for Florida, Linear fixes GitHub Issues issue for Dax, big vs small vs medium dev teams, how long do startup devs actually have to develop, how much of a factor is luck in a…
Dax talks about the launch of SST Ion, a video he shot to promote it and get ahead of the q's people ask, what the migration path is like, should companies still do a launch week, the benefits of an…
A brief list of topics discussed in this brief episode: New Jersey follow up from last episode, PlanetScale layoffs and performative twitter responses, free tiers aren't going to last forever, the…
Dax's internet is bad, but so are all the internet providers. Should Ken buy a farm as a backup plan to when AI takes over? And does Adam ever feel anything at all? What if this is all a simulation?…
Dax is on the move, Adam learns about grills, and Ken Wheeler stops by for a two episode conversation arc. In this episode we're comparing weather, what we do in a hotel, fishing in the Ozarks and…
Adam's brain gets thrown off course, software rot vs serverless life, subscription payments vs one time payment myths, framework devs vs app devs, Adam figures out what Supabase is, Dax reviews an…
Can you control your body with your mind? What about your stomach and food? Adam's got more questions about Dax's tweets, SST is changing to Bun, Adam's tired of all the things but can't stop all the…
In this episode, Lane talks to Dax Raad, a well rounded engineer that is currently a developer for SST, a framework that helps people build Full-Stack applications on AWS with ease. Today, they talk…
Why don't food companies sponsor podcasts? How rich does Adam need to get to build his own compound? Adam debates skipping on Svelte Melt and going all in on Solid with Dax. And a new segment…
What's with the current discourse around React and RFCs? Adam's worried about his consumerism, and the possible significance of rituals in everyday life. Dax has started reading actual books again,…
Adam's lifestyle choices and sleep patterns, technical issues with CloudFlare, AWS and AI, real-time, push-based updates, the challenges faced by dev tool companies and the importance of scalability,…
An episode recorded in the weird space in the first week of the new year. Dax downgrades to 1 grape instead of 12, Adam almost died (again), Home Assistant and Homebridge and Homekit, SST dreaming,…
What's happening with the new version of SST, Ion? Twitter has changed with monetization, Dax's thoughts on the triangle company, the debate between single-page applications (SPAs) and…
Adam's wondering why people hate Aurora Serverless? What's happening with AWS rumors and Preinvent / Reinvent? Dax thinks Pulumi is the best infrastructure as code tool. And Adam wonders if he can…
Serverless is going paid and Dax has thoughts, Adam really wants his GitHub username, why can you say illegal things on social media, Dax VC'd and learned a new word, Adam's obsessed with air…
Dax and Adam read through Kent C. Dodds' article on Why He Won't Use Next.js and give their thoughts on the web platform, independence, Next.js eating React, collaboration, experimenting on users,…
This week we talk with Dax Raad about SST, a framework for building serverless applications on AWS. SST is a typescript framework that makes it easy to build serverless applications on AWS. It's…
Adam went to TwitchCon, apparently people still smoke, dogs are the ultimate hedonist, React taint conversations open up a whole new world, and who are we if we're not defined by our categories on…
On this episode of Modern Web, Tracy Lee, Ben Lesh, Adam Rackis, and Dax Raad discussed the cloud offerings of SST and the advantages of using AWS. Adam was excited about SST's cloud wrappers and the…
Is Dax really not going to TwitchCon? Why hasn't video calling gotten better? Vercel makes an AI image generator mess. Are politicians really necessary? Does Florida have the worst drivers? And how…
Dax woke up to a crappy situation, Adam's got a home theater problem and may have been kicked off the committee of entertainment, and Dax talks about how and what Bumi might pivot to become, and the…
Adam streamed! Live! On Twitch! What's happened to Slack? Cloud based vs on prem servers. How do you define a hike? Dax contemplates building a Hackintosh. Getting addicted to the right things, and…
Adam and Dax discuss the importance of seasonal weather awareness and the concept of farm-to-table food. They delve into the idea of luxury goods debate between buying new or used items. Breakfast…
In this episode Adam and Dax talk about the contrasting vibes between the real world and the computer world, the ethics of recording everything one sees or hears, followed by an exploration of the…
Melkey's back to talk with Dax about routine changes, getting COVID, finding balance between life and work, how SST makes money, could SST get bought, determining if you can work at a startup, the…
Dax Raad, Founder of Bumi and Ironbay and SST Core Maintainer, is a passionate open-source developer who knows his way around the startup tech space with over a decade of experience under his belt.…
Dax chats with Glauber Costa about his career path to this point, starting Turso, avoiding ending up in the tarpit of ideas, issues with naming the Edge, what Turso is up to, how users make life…
Adam finds out the hard way that everyone is using morphine totally wrong, Adam and Dax debate upgrading their iPhones, Dax educates Adam on Svelte and Astro, and if Adam died who would Dax replace…
Is it better to burn out or to fade away as a content creator—or is Adam just a quiet quitter? Our thoughts on Bun's 1.0, bundling, pnpm, rebooting JavaScript, and is Vercel the dark side in the…
The fun of a DHH rant and the ensuing storm of reactions, planning vacations, how SST is looking at enterprise sales, TwitchCon plans, enjoying fall weather and tornado fears, and Adam watches a bad…
Does writing long tweets help you game the algorithm? Has Dax lost faith in academic research? Has Adam unlocked the secret to good knee health by walking backwards? Has Terraform licensing changes…
How do we shop for things in 2023? And why do we love buying things? Adam confuses sous vide for a bidet and yet somehow doesn't get embarrassed in public. Do you get embarrassed in public? Dax…
What is SST learning now that they have users? There's a lot of talk about Tailwind in this episode and Dax hates every minute of it. Are you going to TwitchCon 2023? Should Adam have vegan donuts at…
Dax needs your help finding a new hat, talking about Dax's controversial tweet on remote work, is most work fake, and why aren't medical records shared between doctors? Next up is episode 50! Want to…
The one where Dax and Adam manage to piss off Marvel fans, Star Wars fans, Hayden Christensen fans, metric system fans, the rest of the world - but also talk about Rust, Go, and C#. Want to carry on…
Tomorrow has some competition and Adam's fired up (not really), why are we wired for bad things, SST and Astro API questions, and what's up with Dax's dumb challenges? Want to carry on the…
Dax Raad is building SST - an open-source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps. What Is SST? 0:00 The theory in January was to make content that has nothing to do with SST and still…
Adam has secrets, and wonders if it's too late for him to be anonymous. The LK-99 dream might be over? Despite Adam's jujitsu injuries, they pale in comparison to Dax's skim board injury. Flight…
Adam's got Astro + SST + Lambda on the brain, and Dax has too many meetings with humans. But humans have had a breakthrough in superconductor tech, so maybe humans aren't the worst? Want to carry on…
Why is everyone wrong about everything - especially with Adam? Does an AI breakthrough mean utopia? Are we using Threads to post about X'ing Twitter? Dax has a new hobby, and Adam updates on his…
Dax has a conversation with Tuomas Artman of Linear about their mindset when starting Linear, how they developed the Linear Method, was being fast important from the beginning, what the difference is…
Dax interviews Liz about her journey into tech and startups, how Dax and Liz met, working in a health startup in the pandemic, deciding to do your own thing, almost quitting, expectations of what…
Adam has questions this episode: Why does Tailwind bring out the worst in people? Why don't more people just make nice fast apps like Linear? Why is Notion slow? Is sites vs apps a real debate? Is…
Trash is here but before he arrives, Adam and Dax cover some important ground like Lotion vs Sand, drinking energy drinks, and driving until your brain shuts off. Trash joins the call and wonders…
New format we're trying! Stick around for a conversation with Melkey at the end of the preamble with Adam and Dax who chat about meeting humans for coffee (in a totally normal, human way), Adam's…
Is Adam washed out - in comparison to Dax? Do Adam or Dax worry about data privacy these days? What should Dax do about his weird neighbor - or is he the weird neighbor? And recognizing when your…
Adam and Dax are definitely not going to talk about React drama or devrel. Instead, they're sticking to questions about dinosaurs and interest rates and how they impact the economy. (The interest…
José Valim, the creator of Elixir, joins Dax to tell us the story behind how it was born and what makes it great. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. (00:00) - Intro (00:30) - José…
How does Dax get his news? Should Adam start reading Hacker News? And Adam and Dax talk religion, spirituality, The Last Airbender, and how kids impact your mortality. Want to carry on the…
Adam & Dax discuss a lot of things; arguably too many things. Among those things: the story of Elixir, what we do when life gets too easy, game dev dreams, dev conferences, bridge collapses, and…
Adam & Dax discuss lawns, weed—all the forms of grass, really. They also dip into some political topics, so brace yourself. (00:26) - What's the fork foot rule? (01:08) - Adam felt an emotion (04:04)…
Adam & Dax discuss using Linux and Neovim, being vegan, and other annoying personality traits they share. (00:00) - Coward (00:00) - Timestamp: 158760000 (00:27) - Stream Deck thoughts (01:39) -…
Adam & Dax discuss the recent Twitch developments and the challenges with running a live streaming service. They also talk about reading books and living forever. (00:36) - AWS.fm (01:34) - Topless…
Adam & Dax discuss the realities of tech conferences as well as Apple's Vision Pro headset. (00:00) - But AI, Dax? (00:31) - Low energy vs depressed? (01:58) - Post conference thoughts (03:51) -…
Adam & Dax spend way too much time discussing sun exposure, then dive into local-first patterns with Replicache and more. (00:37) - Comparing sun burns (05:14) - Replicache (09:00) - Linear is an…
Dive into the heart of serverless architecture with the brilliantly unorthodox Dax Raad in this episode of the "Ready, Set, Cloud" podcast. Renowned for his sharp insights and unconventional approach…
Adam & Dax discuss dogs, Sam Altman's congressional hearing (that neither of them watched), the current state of the venture capital markets, and more. (00:00) - Ruff start (00:33) - Is Adam a dog…
Lane chats with Dax Raad, SST framework maintainer about the future of serverless infrastructure. They cut through the hype to figure out how serverless can help backend developers build robust and…
Adam & Dax discuss how PHP & Laravel are taking over the narrative. (00:33) - That sounds like something a scammer would say (02:50) - Dax has read all the Laravel docs (04:33) - What is the…
Adam & Dax discuss... nothing at all, really. (00:30) - Adam's gonna Florida (01:20) - Driving alone vs driving with someone (04:48) - Hating things that people love (08:16) - Adam's drawn to people…
Dax Raad joins KBall and Nick to chat about SST, a framework that makes it easier to build full-stack applications on AWS. We chat about how the project got started and its goals. Then we discuss…
In this episode, I spoke with Dax Raad to talk about SST and the challenges of building an open-source community. Honestly, I think AWS can learn a thing or two from Dax's approach towards…
Adam & Dax discuss their latest project: a Discord server for developers who stream programming, and those that like to watch them. (00:00) - Watch.dev (01:53) - What is Dev Streaming? (04:28) -…
Adam & Dax discuss the SVB collapse and how the government stepped in to prevent catastrophe. (00:41) - What happened at Silicon Valley Bank? (03:09) - What could've the impact been? (08:13) - Why…
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dax Raad about building on serverless infrastructure, Next.js, and SST. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your…
Adam & Dax discuss their most recent fights on Twitter and the forces that are driving increased anger on the internet. (00:00) - Not a fighter... but on Twitter (01:16) - What the conflict was about…
Adam & Dax discuss signals and what the future looks like for React. (00:24) - What are signals? (02:07) - React vs Solid and signals? (05:35) - You think you know something, but you need to unlearn…
Adam & Dax discuss their recent side project: Rebase.tv, a live game show for developers. (00:33) - We're making something together (01:57) - Making a landing page (05:52) - AWS issues we've had…
Adam & Dax discuss the release of SST v2. (00:01) - SST 2 is out (01:05) - Was there any doubt in what you were building? (05:58) - What's new in SST? (08:17) - Adam's experience with SST (13:00) -…
Adam & Dax discuss their first tech conference experience in a hotel room in Las Vegas.
Adam & Dax discuss the ongoing Twitter drama. Can the remaining staff keep the platform running? Is the world overreacting? Is Mastodon a viable alternative?
Adam & Dax discuss the future of (pure) serverless after an ominous tweet from a prominent figure at AWS.
Adam & Dax discuss a blog post by DHH where he explains why they're moving away from the cloud and managing their infrastructure in-house.
Adam & Dax talk about the Shopify acquisition of Remix and what it means for the web development landscape moving forward.
Adam & Dax talk about The Edge, serverless, big companies vs. small, CloudFlare vs. AWS, and more.
Adam & Dax discuss the big Next.js Conf takeaways and where the web is headed.
My guest today is Dax Raad, a software engineer based in New York City. Dax has rapidly become an influential voice in the serverless community due to, amongst other things, his work with the…