@kenn: Kanary's monorepo is growing by 100,000 lines every month, and it's already around 450,000 lines now. Meanwhile, Codex'…

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The author reflects on the rapid growth of Kanary's monorepo and the parallel increase in Codex's token consumption, suggesting that loose coupling of modules might be necessary due to AI context limitations.

Kanary's monorepo is growing by 100,000 lines every month, and it's already around 450,000 lines now. Meanwhile, Codex's token consumption is speeding up in parallel. In other words, as the number of files the agent explores increases, the token consumption per task also goes up— which, well, is obviously just a natural consequence, if you think about it. But having watched that growth process in fast-forward has made it hit hard on a gut level. I wonder what's the best way to handle this in huge projects. Even in my own projects, since macOS and iOS share some code, I can't completely separate the search space within the monorepo. Given that AI context doesn't scale up dramatically, it seems like the only option is to make modules more loosely coupled?
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Kanary’s monorepo is growing by 100,000 lines every month, and it’s already around 450,000 lines now.

Meanwhile, Codex’s token consumption is speeding up in parallel.

In other words, as the number of files the agent explores increases, the token consumption per task also goes up— which, well, is obviously just a natural consequence, if you think about it.

But having watched that growth process in fast-forward has made it hit hard on a gut level.

I wonder what’s the best way to handle this in huge projects.

Even in my own projects, since macOS and iOS share some code, I can’t completely separate the search space within the monorepo.

Given that AI context doesn’t scale up dramatically, it seems like the only option is to make modules more loosely coupled?

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