Dax Raad
Every AI Coding Weekly story that cites Dax Raad (@thdxr), newest first. 11 stories since September 2026.
On X: building @opencode at @anomalyco not the ceo
- dax says opencode rewrote opentunnel in Rust and moved it live
A language rewrite plus a cutover off Cloudflare onto 10 Fly regions, reported by the person who ran it.
- One phone prompt rewrote opencode2, dax says it cost $500
The same week, Prime Intellect says a swarm of over 2,000 agents spent two weeks rewriting its own agent in Rust.
- dax says agents keep accidentally undoing functionality
Nothing in a repo records that you rejected solutions one through four and picked five.
- dax says custom agent setups fix problems that no longer exist
Kent C. Dodds agrees and says give the agent tools, not instructions it has to religiously follow.
- OpenAI halves what the $200 Pro plan buys
Tibo says the reopened plan is worth half the API dollars of the old one, and dax argues the people who should be angry are early stage startups.
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- ThePrimeagen ran four model passes and hated the result
Three review passes caught guardrails and dead code, and none of them caught the design.
- Two teams benchmark Jev, and it wins on speed and accuracy
Independent evals from Malte Ubl and the fx team both put Jev ahead of the small models they were already running.
- dax says matching DeepSeek inference is a $100M problem
He also says any provider advertising a 99% cache rate is wrapping DeepSeek, because DeepSeek is the only one hitting that number.
- dax moves part of his team off Astra after spend doubles
One team's cost numbers, a few bad impressions and a paused top tier all landed in the same week.
- Engineers push back on Amodei's pacing the frontier call
The loudest objections came from people shipping production systems, not from other labs.
- Thariq flips, says MCP now beats CLIs for most integrations
The "just give it a CLI" consensus is getting walked back by several of the people who held it.
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