Your Daily Gist — February 26, 2026

Welcome to Daily Gist — your newsletters, distilled into conversation! From a solo hacker who accidentally built the infrastructure backbone of the internet, to an AI that's about to replace Git itself — today we're asking: what does it actually mean to write code anymore? Okay, "accidentally built the infrastructure backbone of the internet" — that's a bold claim. Who are we talking about? Mitchell Hashimoto. Co-founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vag