How About Tomorrow?

Adam Elmore & Dax Raad

How About Tomorrow?

Adam Elmore & Dax Raad

Adam and Dax discuss web technologies, the internet, and the future of (basically) everything.

2025/08/26

Missouri Humidity and AI Hype Cycles

Dax and Adam talk about melted protein bars and the weather in Missouri, to deeper reflections on living conditions, food choices, aging, and the impact of technology on their lives. City versus suburban living, the complexities of homelessness, the curren...

2025/08/19

Why Does Everyone Hate Software Developers?

Candy and fake sugar, Adam has so many vacuums, weird AI startup vibes and optimization brags, working with different AI models, how we decide what our default prompt is, the normie view of GPT5, and why do you hate software engineers? Links: * JOYRIDE ...

2025/08/05

Dax Is Ready to Be So Right About Parenting

What it's like working on software that has a lot of competition, how opencode might handle permissions and ditching features, living like a dog in the moment, and Dax is ready to be right about everything—including parenting. Links: * Fireship - YouTub...

2025/07/15

PlanetScale's Postgres Launch with Sam Lambert

Sam Lambert, the CEO of PlanetScale, joins Dax for a candid discussion about the remarkable journey of launching the Postgres product and scaling the company's success. Discover how PlanetScale is on track to achieve a million dollars in ARR for their Post...

2025/07/08

AI Ready

Adam Wolff from AnthropicAI

Adam Wolff from AnthropicAI discusses various aspects of AI development, particularly focusing on Claude Code and its impact on programming workflows. They explore the challenges and benefits of integrating AI into development processes, the importance of ...

2025/06/24

Baby Registries, Cold Showers, and Launching opencode

Links: * Dax's tweet about opencode rewrite * opencode.ai * Intro | opencode * GitHub - sst/opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal. * Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) - YouTube * Models.dev — An open-source database of ...

2025/06/10

Building Individual Apps with AI, Elon vs Trump, Screen Time and OpenAI Aquisitions

Is AI going to help us build our own individual apps or are we years away from that happening, thoughts on Crunchydata being acquired, Elon vs Trump on Twitter, the annoying benefits of physical activity, the shocking amount of screen time on Dax's iPhone,...

2025/06/03

Do You Look Up or Down When Your Job is Being Taken Away by AI?

Dax is ditching OpenAI and ChatGPT, Adam's looking down, are jobs being lost to AI or are we just asking the wrong questions, the truth about VCs changing the world, Remix finally announces the thing, is NextJS the ASP.net of today, and how has tech and Tw...

2025/05/27

One of the Best Episodes We've Seen From the Standpoint of Water

Teej sits in for Adam to chat with Dax about OpenCode, Heex, building an auto-scaling gym how to fix your garden and your grass, chickens + kids + LEGO, and what the deal is between Prime and Sabrina Carpenter. Links: * Phoenix.Component — Phoenix Li...

2025/05/20

Dax's Lack of Stress, Confusing AI Models, and Organizing Twitter

Dax has to work on his lighting, Adam's wondering if Dax ever gets stressed, an updated on OpenCode, the confusing AI models (still), DHH and Twitter fights, and OpenAI introduces Codex as the show ends. Links: * Zack Kanter on X * DHH on X * DHH o...

2025/05/12

Millennial Coders , Air Travel, and is AI the Best or the Worst?

There's a new Pope and Dax (almost) knows him, new lighting, the fun of being a random at a wedding, AI is maybe going to save us or maybe not, and what techniques should we hang on to and what should we leave in the past? Links: * Cursor - The AI Co...

2025/04/28

Humanoid Robots, Flying a Drone, and Programmers Rapping

Why hasn't Adam gotten the humanoid robot servant he's been promised, the current state of AI programming, what happened in Miami, renting a yacht and buying a drone, recording a song in a studio, and where in the world should Adam and Dax move? Links:...

2025/04/14

Docs in MCP, Elon and Plinko, Finances with Dax, and a Big Announcement

Prepping for React Miami while Adam tries not to catch the plague, where are the tariffs at this week, moving off Astro, building docs in MCP, financial literacy is underrated, using Claude in AWS or Google Cloud, and why aren't more people playing to win?...

2025/04/07

Termai, SSTPhone, Young Men, and Tariffs

Adam's excited about Termai, they debate whether they're in the prime or twilight of their careers, what even is CoPilot and Microsoft's AI approach, Dax's plans for building the SSTPhone, what's happening with young men, and what's happening with tariffs—...

2025/03/31

OpenAI and MCP, Poking Replit, and Terminal's Launch Week

Terminal's launch week was also a bad week for CEOs, prepping for ReactMiami, Adam unintentionally pokes Replit, thoughts on the new AI image models, and Dax updates Adam on the world news he missed while travelling. Links: * OpenAI ChatGPT Users Are...

2025/03/17

Sam Lambert Returns: Building Great Things by Playing the Long Game

Sam Lambert returns to chat about the launch of PlanetScale Metal, the importance of looking past averages, constraints of working with Amazon, how building good software is like building an airline, thoughts on the standard software dev playbooks, advice ...

2025/03/10

Claude Code, MCP, Free Will, and the Price of Maple Syrup

Adam's hooked on Claude Code, why the sudden panic over MCP (model context protocol), OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Claude, why is Sam Altman so annoying, do we believe in free will, and are we on the slow decline of America—and more importantly, will Dax have to...

2025/03/03

Aaron Boodman on Building Zero, Local-First, and Living in Hawaii

Aaron Boodman joins us to chat about his tech journey from building Greasemonkey, working on Google Chrome, being obsessed with sync on the web, Replicache, to his new project, Zero. Links: * The Expanse (novel series) - Wikipedia * Zero * Zero Bug...

2025/02/24

Tapas, Longer Lasting Flu, and AI as the Way to Keep Up With News

Is the flu lasting longer this year, why is it so hard to keep up with conspiracy theories, Dax has an AI based social news app idea, what is really quantum computing, and Adam's trying to sort out the crazy world. Links: * Tomorrow Jon Stewart On Va...

2025/02/10

DOGE, o3-mini vs Google Flash, Why Sports, and Why Horowitz > Andreessen

What is happening with Musk and DOGE and government, who does the USA owe money to, o3-mini vs Google Flash vs avante thoughts, what does Dax watch instead of sports, Adam makes a case for why sports matter, and should Adam trust Marc Andreessen or Ben Hor...