You don’t need a monorepo. You need clarity.

I’ve seen way too many teams jump onto monorepos thinking it’s a silver bullet—“Look, we can share code!” “All our services in one place!” But what they end up with is a spaghetti mess of CI hacks, accidental coupling, and mental overhead.

Most people don’t need a monorepo—they just need to learn how to document things properly, split responsibilities, and version their APIs cleanly. A messy monorepo is worse than a well-thought-out polyrepo setup.

Before you adopt the tech bigcos use, ask yourself: are you facing the same scale or just copying noise?