What Dax Raad thinks about AI and jobs

@dax-raad · 28 positions · 0 changes of mind

Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Co-hosts the How About Tomorrow? podcast with Adam Elmore.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Dax Raad has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 27 May 2026

   Our readingThere is a world where AI coding tools change nothing except that engineers are happier, and for a lot of companies that is not good enough to keep paying for.

   Their wordsthere is a world where the net result of all these AI coding tools is the same amount of work gets done, but all the engineers are happier because their job is easier. That's not good enough for a lot of companies. So, they're just going to say go back to typing out the code.

   ↗Building OpenCode with Dax Raadyoutube.com 15th of 24 in this recording

   Interesting

3. 27 May 2026

   Our readingRedefining the engineer's job as building guardrails is not novel — it is the same problem as making a junior engineer effective, which we never solved either.

   Their wordsThe thing that I find interesting is that's not novel. This has been the thing we've always been trying to do forever. How do we get a junior engineer to ship code safely without breaking stuff? Right? How do we make patterns in the codebase? How do we make tests? Like it's it's all the old stuff that we've always wanted to do.

   ↗Building OpenCode with Dax Raadyoutube.com 22nd of 24 in this recording

   Interesting