Monorepo vs Multi-Repo: Why AI Agents Tip the Scale (opens in new tab)

The monorepo vs multi-repo debate ran for over a decade without a clear winner. That wasn't because engineers couldn't agree — it was because both models offered genuine advantages under different constraints. A 50-person startup with three services and a 10,000-person company with hundreds of microservices faced different problems. The right repository structure depended on team size, deployment cadence, ownership models, and tooling maturity. That calculus has changed. AI coding agents, cod...