Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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I particularly like to combine this with slower, more thoughtful models like Amp's deep mode (which is basically just GPT-5.2-Codex) which can take upwards of 30+ minutes to make small changes. The flip side of that is that it does tend to produce very good results.
A long post walking through the six steps by which he went from AI skeptic to always having a coding agent running.
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant; writes about LLM evaluation and tooling at hamel.dev.
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My daily drivers now include Amp, Cursor, and Claude Code. I still enjoy notebooks, but only for data analysis, machine learning, or other exploratory workflows where the iterative, visual nature of notebooks shines.
'Why I Stopped Using nbdev' — on how AI coding tools changed which development tools he picks.
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