February 10, 2026
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The rise of agentic AI coding tools is causing a rethink of approaches to massive monorepos.
The latest generation of large language models (LLMs), and coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex is significantly increasing the volume of code organizations need to handle.
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, has written extensively in recent weeks about how he’s processing around 250 pull requests a month – roughly eight or nine pull requests a day. (Some studies have the average at 12 a month.) He even admitted he barely, if ever, writes a line of code these days, saying that 100% of his recent contributions were written by Claude Code rather than typed by him directly.
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February 10, 2026
