Mitchell Hashimoto
Creator of Vagrant and Terraform, co-founder of HashiCorp, creator of Ghostty.
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28 Aug 2026
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Their wordsI can't tell you the number of people over my career that have said "I tried learning tmux" First problem: the fact you have to "learn it" at all. The world's best multiplexer is the one you don't have to learn. It just works.
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13 Aug 2026
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Their wordsI'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace.
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12 Aug 2026
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High-quality internal tools produce high-quality external products — a form of Conway's law.
Their wordsA form of Conway's law: high quality internal tools lead to high quality external tools.
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5 Feb 2026
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Their wordsImmediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.
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11 Oct 2025
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Their wordsThis is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.