Automation Obsessed
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- Mitchell Hashimoto's passion for automation began with cheating at Neopets by writing a Visual Basic program to automate daily tasks.
- He expanded automation to arbitrage Neopian markets, generating millions of Neopoints per hour, and later sought to automate tasks for real money, which led to legal issues.
- In college, he created automated registration software that texted him when course slots opened, outperforming manual refreshes.
- During his third year, he built Vagrant to automate virtual machine creation and control, which greatly improved development workflows.
- At Kiip, he automated the entire infrastructure; after accidentally locking himself out, he rebuilt a 50-machine cluster in under 30 minutes with zero downtime.
- He founded HashiCorp to develop software that automates everything, continuing his lifelong obsession with automation.