9 interesting observations from my conversation with Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, creator of Ghostty, founder of HashiCorp): 1. Vagrant was created because dev environment setup was an unbillable time sink at a consultancy. At the Ruby on Rails shop where Mitchell worked, jumping onto another client’s project could waste half a day. This inspired building Vargant. 2. Terraform won, despite being 7th to market. Terraform won through relentless conference presence, community building, and a…