Mitchell HashimotoOct 11

I've shared the full transcript of every agentic coding session from implementing the unobtrusive Ghostty updates and provided commentary alongside about my thinking and process.

I'm regularly asked to share non-trivial examples of how I use AI and agentic coding tools and this felt like a golden opportunity to walk through my process with a well-scoped, non-trivial, real-world, shipping feature.

Total cost: $15.98 over 16 sessions.

"Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature" https://mitchellh.com/writing/non-trivial-vibing

Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature

Mitchell Hashimoto
Show threademil
@mitchellh Great post, thanks! I am curious, as you work with the LLM, how do you manage with the idea it may trash existing in process code? I usually "checkpoint" by adding code that is on the right track into the git staging area, but only commit after I have reviewed and cleaned up manually. But I wonder how others do this and I don't see it talked about often.
Oct 12 at 12:52amWeb
Show threadMitchell HashimotoOct 12
@emil I "jj new" aggressively, sometimes with chains of up to like 10 unnamed commits. Then I "jj abandon" or squash things around.