<p>This is a guest conversation episode of <strong>Ship It Weekly</strong> (separate from the weekly news recaps).</p><p>In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with <strong>Mike Lady</strong> (Senior DevOps Engineer, distributed systems) from <strong>Enterprise Vibe Code</strong> on YouTube. We talk day two readiness, guardrails/quality gates, and why shipping safely matters even more now that AI can generate code fast.</p><p>Highlights</p><ul><li>Day 0 vs Day 1 vs <strong>Day 2</strong> (launching vs operating and evolving safely)</li><li>What teams look like without guardrails (“hope is not a strategy”)</li><li>Why guardrails <strong>speed you up</strong> long-term (less firefighting, more predictable delivery)</li><li>Day-two audit checklist: source control/branches/PRs, branch protection, CI quality gates, secrets/config, staging→prod flow</li><li>AI agents: they’ll “lie, cheat, and steal” to satisfy the goal unless you gate them</li><li>Multi-model reviews (Claude/Gemini/Codex) as different perspectives</li><li>AI in prod: start read-only (logs/traces), then earn trust slowly</li></ul><p>Mike’s links</p><ul><li>YouTube: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@EnterpriseVibeCode">https://www.youtube.com/@EnterpriseVibeCode</a></li><li>Site: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.enterprisevibecode.com/">https://www.enterprisevibecode.com/</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelady/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelady/</a></li></ul><p>Stuff mentioned</p><ul><li><em>Vibe Coding</em> (Gene Kim + Steve Yegge): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vibe-Coding/Gene-Kim/9781966280026">https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vibe-Coding/Gene-Kim/9781966280026</a></li><li>Beads (agent memory/issue tracker): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/steveyegge/beads">https://github.com/steveyegge/beads</a></li><li>Gas Town (agent orchestration): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown">https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://AGENTS.md">AGENTS.md</a> (agent instructions file): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://agents.md/">https://agents.md/</a></li><li>OpenAI Codex: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://openai.com/codex/">https://openai.com/codex/</a></li></ul><p>More episodes + details: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://shipitweekly.fm">https://shipitweekly.fm</a></p>