21-person team ships hundreds of PRs weekly with AI writing 97% of the code
rseroter · x · 2026-10-16
Swizec Teller details his 21-person engineering org's AI-era culture: AI writes 97% of his code, the team ships hundreds of PRs weekly, 16% of PRs are auto-approved and merged, and 1000-line PRs are routine — all in an operations-heavy business where outages cost thousands. The thesis: "when code is cheap, judgement becomes the job." It rests on high accountability — you sign your work with your phone number, own it in production, talk to users — and a ship-first culture that almost never says no to ideas.
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