This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).

In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Mike Lady (Senior DevOps Engineer, distributed systems) from Enterprise Vibe Code on YouTube. We talk day two readiness, guardrails/quality gates, and why shipping safely matters even more now that AI can generate code fast.

Highlights

Day 0 vs Day 1 vs Day 2 (launching vs operating and evolving safely)
What teams look like without guardrails (“hope is not a strategy”)
Why guardrails speed you up long-term (less firefighting, more predictable delivery)
Day-two audit checklist: source control/branches/PRs, branch protection, CI quality gates, secrets/config, staging→prod flow
AI agents: they’ll “lie, cheat, and steal” to satisfy the goal unless you gate them
Multi-model reviews (Claude/Gemini/Codex) as different perspectives
AI in prod: start read-only (logs/traces), then earn trust slowly

Mike’s links

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnterpriseVibeCode
Site: https://www.enterprisevibecode.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelady/

Stuff mentioned

Vibe Coding (Gene Kim + Steve Yegge): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vibe-Coding/Gene-Kim/9781966280026
Beads (agent memory/issue tracker): https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
Gas Town (agent orchestration): https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown
AGENTS.md (agent instructions file): https://agents.md/
OpenAI Codex: https://openai.com/codex/

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Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI Era

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Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI Era