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Short, mean, and true. Notes from the front line of vibe coding
·4 minYour 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
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·4 min25% of YC W25 ships 95% AI-written code. Now what?
The batch that broke the mold. One in four startups in YC winter 2025 has a codebase that is 95% AI-generated. The implications are not subtle
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·3 minHire a developer who uses Cursor
Cursor is the floor, not the ceiling. Here is how to tell the devs who actually ship with it from the ones who installed it last week
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·3 minHire a developer who uses Claude Code
Claude Code is where the senior work happens. Long context, agentic loops, terminal native. Here is how to find the devs who actually ship with it
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·4 minRecruiters are dead. The git log replaced them
A recruiter sells keywords. A git log sells receipts. Guess which one the people paying the bills actually care about
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