310 - Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow

About this episode

Mitchell Hashimoto discusses his journey from AI skepticism to developing Ghostty and his coding workflows.

Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp, built some of the most impressive DevOps tools like Vagrant and Terraform, sold the company to IBM — and then built a terminal. Ghostty is now where a huge chunk of agentic coding actually happens. Mitchell was an AI skeptic. We walk through his six-step adoption framework and the workflows he uses day to day — warm-start research, Hail Mary prompts across twenty GitHub issues, and knowing when to let the agent slam dunk it. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/310/

People in this episode

Hosts: Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza

Guest: Mitchell Hashimoto

Topics covered

• DevOps
• AI adoption
• coding workflows
• agentic coding
• software development

Keywords

• Mitchell Hashimoto
• Ghostty
• DevOps
• AI skepticism
• coding workflow
• HashiCorp
• Terraform
• Vagrant

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HashiCorp, IBM

Products: Vagrant, Terraform, Ghostty

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