What Dax Raad thinks about benchmarks
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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Their wordsevery week i see a new benchmark that ranks claude code last and everyone pats themselves on the back for not using claude code and being "smarter" and it's still #1 and still growing faster than most of the other things on the list this has been going on for a year
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Their wordswhat the benchmark is actually telling you is the shit you think matters does not matter