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Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI Era
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- Feb 24, 2026
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Summary
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/ More episodes + details: https://shipitweekly.fm