How we actually pulled it off
The honest answer is the boring one. We pulled an ultrahackathon. The team who built this did not sleep much for two days. They worked through Wednesday night, through Thursday, through Thursday night, through Friday. They ate at their desks. They wrote the spec late Wednesday evening and they wrote the cutover commit on Friday afternoon, and in between they did the work that the time between those two moments required.
I’m just shocked this isn’t a story about how AI rebuilt their product in record time (followed by a “we’re closing” post)
Great it’s not vibeslop it’s just crunch and worker exploitation. The choice between Pest or Cholera as we say in German.
Maybe the workers shared the cost savings between themselves as a nice bonus for the next 5 years?
It’s nice to dream sometimes, but always have to wake up for reality.
