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OpenCode operates in an AI-native space but, as co-founder Dax Raad(dax) tells us, no one is using AI so well that they’re crushing the competition: “In the past six months, we operated very differently than we ever have. A lot of stuff went wrong because of that. So now...

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ashutosh sharma4 months ago

@thdxr This is what I see in backend dev too. The gap isn't access to AI tools — every team has Cursor and Claude Code. The gap is: who understands the system well enough to know what to tell AI to build? Architecture clarity > AI tool adoption.

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Tanishq (tk)4 months ago

@thdxr

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Tori Moon4 months ago

@thdxr "I'd argue it was 'John the Fatless' who truly turned the tide.

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Kaiomurz Motawara4 months ago

@thdxr @edzitron

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Sebastian Buzdugan2 months ago

@thdxr ai speed shifts the bottleneck from coding to review, so competition stays close

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reaganmcf4 months ago

@thdxr @thdxr what Minecraft mods did you used to write? During the CurseForge days or before that?

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Thilina Senarath4 months ago

@GergelyOrosz @thdxr Whats that even mean

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Adel Bucetta4 months ago

@thdxr the reason most people think ai is the holy grail is that they've never tried to scale it themselves

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