There's a moment every engineering manager experiences after adopting AI coding tools. The initial excitement—"We're shipping features twice as fast!"—slowly curdles into a disturbing realization: "Wait, why are my senior engineers spending hours manually testing for regressions that proper automated tests could catch in seconds?"
This is the AI Verification Trap, and there's only one way out.
Maintaining a monorepo poses a significant challenge in the long term, particularly when it comes to keeping packages up-to-date. With a large number of packages in our monorepo in play (some is updated less frequently than others) and the fast-paced nature of the JavaScript ecosystem, some packages may be outdated easily. This can result in two major issues: firstly, the less frequently updated packages may contain outdated dependencies with known vulnerabilities, and secondly, updating these dependencies can prove to be a difficult task when we need to work on a package that relies on them.