Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code
From The Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz
February 25, 2026 · 1h 58m
About this episode
Mitchell Hashimoto discusses his journey in software engineering and the impact of AI tools on his workflow.
Brought to You By: • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto changed, thanks to AI tools? Mitchell Hashimoto is one of the most influential infrastructure engineers of our time, and is one of the most pragmatic builders I’ve met. He is the co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty. In this episode, we talk about how he got into software engineering, the history of HashiCorp, and the challenges of turning widely used open-source tools into a durable business. We also go into what it’s really like to work with AWS, Azure and GCP as a startup. Mitchell shares how he uses AI these days, and how agents have completely changed how he works. We touch on Ghostty, open source, and what’s changing for software engineers and founders in an AI-native era. — Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:03) Mitchell’s path into software engineering (07:19) The origins of HashiCorp (15:52) Early cloud computing (18:22) The 2010s startup scene in SF (23:11) Funding…
People in this episode
Host: Gergely Orosz
Guest: Mitchell Hashimoto
Topics covered
- AI tools in software engineering
- HashiCorp history
- open-source business challenges
- cloud computing
- startup funding
- AI-native era
Keywords
- Mitchell Hashimoto
- HashiCorp
- AI tools
- open-source
- cloud computing
- startup
- software engineering
- Ghostty
Sponsors
Statsig, Sonar, WorkOS
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: HashiCorp, Ghostty, AWS, Azure, GCP
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