What Dax Raad thinks about ideas vs execution

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

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1. 27 May 2026

   Our readingBefore product-market fit, coding faster does not help: it is better to think a lot than to swing a lot, and AI does not speed up the thinking.

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   Their wordsBut I've always thought it's better to think a lot instead of swinging a lot. I think you could you can eliminate a lot of ideas or directions just by, you know, spending a lot of time in your head and with your team talking. Um, obviously AI doesn't speed that part up.

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