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My AI Adoption Journey – Mitchell Hashimoto

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My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery. In most cases, I have to force myself through phase 1 and 2 because I usually have a workflow I'm already happy and comfortable with. Adopting a tool feels like work, and I do not want to put in the effort, but I usually do in an effort to be a well-rounded person of my craft. This is my journey of how I found value in AI tooling and what I'm trying next with it. In an ocean of overly dramatic, hyped takes, I hope this represents a more nuanced, measured approach to my views on AI and how they've changed over time. This blog post was fully written by hand, in my own words. I hate that I have to say that but especially given the subject matter, I want to be explicit about it. Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web,

My AI Adoption Journey – Mitchell Hashimoto Mitchell Hashimoto Mitchell Hashimoto My AI Adoption Journey February 5, 2026 Table of Contents Step 1: Drop the Chatbot Step 2: Reproduce Your Own Work Step 3: End-of-Day Agents Step 4: Outsource the Slam Dunks Step 5: Engineer the Harness Step 6: Always Have an Agent Running Today My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery. In most cases, I have to force myself through phase 1 a

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