·3 min·needavibecoder
Ship or shit
There are two kinds of developers. The ones whose names appear in the git log this week, and everyone else
shippingculture
Open your repo. Run git shortlog -sn --since="1 week ago". That list is your real org chart. Everyone not on it is overhead.
The interview is the repo
We do not care how someone explains a binary tree on a whiteboard. We care what they merged last month. The code says everything the resume tries to hide.
Velocity is a moral position
Slow teams hide behind process. They invent rituals so nobody can tell who is producing and who is performing. A vibe coder breaks that game by shipping the feature before the kickoff meeting ends.
The test
Give a candidate a real task and a working laptop. Two hours. If they ship something you can deploy, hire them. If they ship a Notion doc, thank them and move on.