Common objections to monorepos are addressed and debunked one by one. A monorepo is not a monolith — deployment and repository structure are orthogonal concerns. Code ownership can be enforced at the folder or project level using tools like GitHub CODEOWNERS or Nx's @nx/owners. Module boundaries and dependency constraints prevent the 'big ball of mud' problem. CI scalability is solved through affected-only builds, remote caching, distributed task execution, and test atomization. AI coding agents actually benefit from monorepo structure rather than being overwhelmed by it. Real challenges include the need for trunk-based development, more sophisticated CI setup, and careful handling of breaking changes to shared libraries.

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