Dax Raad (OpenCode): Why AI Changes Nothing

Steve Yegge runs his 30-year-old game, Wyvern, with a software factory of about 50 agents and one human. He spent 7 years at Amazon and almost 13 at Google, co-wrote Vibe Coding with Gene Kim, and created Beads and Gas Town.In this episode of AI Giants, Steve explains why inference costs never dropped and why SaaS is not dead, why people are sleeping on swarms of small models, what happened the day his factory stopped because he yelled at it, and how a 22-year-old should prepare for this world.

Dana Lawson is CTO of Netlify and a veteran engineering leader navigating the AI shift. We are diving into why Agent Experience (AX) is becoming the new UX and whether the traditional divide between frontend and backend is becoming obsolete. We also hear Dana's take on why soft skills now outweigh coding ability and what that means for the future of engineering.

Malte Ubl is CTO of Vercel and the engineering force behind v0, the platform transforming how we build the web.We are diving into the engineering behind v0, how they pivoted four times and hill-climbed from 64% to 93% error-free generation. We also hear Malte's take on the Vercel-React relationship and its impact on the future of web development.

Jaime is sitting down with Geoffrey Huntley, creator of the infamous Ralph Wiggum Loop, the new autonomous development pattern for Claude Code that is taking the dev community by storm.They dive into why a "Simpsons-pilled" approach to failure (relying on simple bash loops rather than over-engineered agents) is proving to be the superior strategy for modern coding. As the era of "hand-crafted commits" fades, Geoff breaks down the existential risks facing junior and mid-level roles, offering a roadmap for engineers who need to evolve from unskilled operators into true specialists through deliberate practice.

Dax Raad is the founder of OpenCode, the open-source AI coding agent built for the terminal and focused on maximum developer context and productivity.In this episode, we explore how OpenCode is redefining the agentic experience, why Dax believes Terminal User Interfaces (TUI) are crucial for the next generation of developer tools, and what it takes to build a powerful, open-source alternative to the proprietary AI Giants.

In this episode, Vinay Perneti, VP of Engineering at Augment Code, joins us to pull back the curtain on how "persistent memory" and massive context windows are transforming the developer experience.We dive deep into:The AI Market Shift: What’s actually changed in the last year?Large Codebase Support: How Augment stays ahead by solving the context problem at scale.The Future of Work: What AI tools mean for the roles of Staff+ engineers and engineering leaders.

Ray-Eitel Porter is the Senior Advisor for Responsible AI at Accenture, and co-author of Governing the Machine: How to Navigate the Risks of AI and Unlock Its True Potential. In the words of LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman, the book is an "essential guide for anyone navigating the promise of deploying AI at scale".Jaime is sitting down with the leading expert on AI Governance himself to learn the blueprint for deploying AI securely at scale and meeting upcoming regulations like the EU AI Act. 

Jaime is sitting down with Isidor Nikolic, key product leader at VS Code, who was there from the very start. Hear the origin story behind the world's most popular IDEs and get a glimpse into Microsoft's vision for agentic AI in software development.

In our second episode, Jaime sits down with Mindaugas Petrutis, a key driver behind Lovable’s explosive growth. They dive deep into the shifting landscape of the no-code revolution and the reality of software development in an AI-first world.Mindaugas pulls back the curtain on how Lovable helps users launch paid products in under a week and reveals the critical mistakes companies make when trying to scale AI development tools.

How do you move from a basic Copilot to a real Agentic workflow?In our first live interview, Jaime Jorge sits down with Brian Smitches, Partner Deployed Engineer at Windsurf. They explore the impact of adopting Agentic AI in the modern software lifecycle and how it’s reshaping security and code quality at scale. Brian shares insights from the front lines of AI adoption, discussing the shift toward AI-native engineering and the challenges of maintaining high-performance teams in an automated world.