Your team of ten is a fossil
84% of devs use AI. 26.9% of production code is AI-written. The ones still typing every line by hand are not senior — they are slow
Your engineering org has ten people. Your changelog has three entries this quarter. Your standup has more attendees than your repo has commits. You are not building a company, you are running a museum.
The numbers nobody on your team wants to read
83.9% of new hires fail within the first year. The average senior role takes 81 days to fill. Each empty seat burns roughly $112K before anyone ships a single pull request. 45% of engineering budgets blow past forecast.
Meanwhile a single developer with Claude Code, Cursor, and a clear brief ships features over a weekend that your sprint planning meeting is still breaking into tickets.
Vibe coding is not a meme
It is a workflow. You describe the outcome, the model writes the code, you review, you ship. The bottleneck is no longer typing. It is taste, judgment, and the willingness to delete things that do not work.
That is what a vibe coder is. Not a prompt monkey. A senior engineer who treats the model like a junior that types at 10,000 WPM and never gets tired.
What to do on Monday
Stop hiring committees. Hire one person who ships. Give them the keys. Measure output in merged PRs and shipped features, not in story points.