Key Info
A developer argues that AI coding tools have made many long-running programming process debates (monorepo vs multi-repo, IaC adoption, etc.) largely irrelevant, because AI can handle either approach. He illustrates this with his own shift from a hardcore monorepo stance to multi-repos for supply chain security, noting AI made the migration painless.
Highlights
- People cite agents as the reason for moving to IaC, to monorepos, and off monorepos — the author says this is confusion, not a coherent trend.
- The core point: many of these choices stopped mattering because AI can deal with either way.
- Concrete example: as an open-source company, securing one big repo against supply chain attacks is hard, so they moved to multi-repos.
- AI made what would have been a large migration basically painless, so either setup now works.
- Conclusion: AI has ended many process debates that have long divided programmers.