What Mitchell Hashimoto thinks about coding agents

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Creator of Ghostty and co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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1. 11 Oct 2025

   Our readingEffective use of AI coding tools requires domain expertise: the tool should be used as an assistant, not as a replacement for the engineer.

   Their wordsThis is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.

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