This is Nuts

Six months ago I had an operations team and a development team and the lines were clear on who did what. Today everyone on the operations team is vibe coding UI and instead of blocking that or trying to slow it down my job now has been to figure out how to streamline it, make it safe, and enable the velocity. To those ends I’ve split my our monolith SSR web app into back end and front end repos where anyone can contribute to the UI, the dev team handles those PRs, and I keep extremely tight controls on the api layer for security and code quality.

There are several amazing things about this. 1. My dev team basically doubled. Product design now means the designer can just implement his designs directly and immediately see how well they work instead of being gated by dev. 2. This is the biggest refactor I’ve ever done and it took a few weeks. It was unthinkable a year ago.