Dev practices like monorepos existed to manage messy humans, not for agents' sake
intellectronica · x · 2026-11-02
electrontronica argues that many software dev practices being changed by agents were never done for the agents' sake — they were workarounds for how messy human collaboration is. Monorepos, monoliths, roll-your-own solutions, and premature optimizations all fall into this category. The implication: in the agent era, engineering conventions designed around human coordination costs may no longer be necessary.
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