My AI Adoption Journey

Mitchell Hashimoto shares his six-step journey to finding value in AI coding tools. He emphasizes moving beyond chatbots to AI agents that can read files, execute programs, and make HTTP requests. Key strategies include reproducing manual work with agents to build expertise, running end-of-day agents for research and triage, delegating high-confidence tasks while working on other projects, engineering harnesses to prevent repeated mistakes, and maintaining a constant stream of agent work. He stresses the importance of understanding when not to use agents and controlling context switching by disabling notifications.