Technical Debt Measurement Across Multi-Repo Codebases
AI coding assistants are accelerating technical debt faster than single-repo metrics can measure it.
Marcus Della-Fontaine
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8 stories in Enterprise Code Search.
AI coding assistants are accelerating technical debt faster than single-repo metrics can measure it.
Monorepo and polyrepo each require purpose-built search infrastructure to scale.
AI coding tools speed up developers but bottleneck everywhere downstream from the editor.
Searching scattered repositories becomes a security liability when tools can't see them all.
Test your actual codebase, not the vendor's demo environment.
Building search for monorepos requires rethinking indexing from the ground up.
Symbol-aware search turns grep guesses into compiler-accurate answers across dozens of repositories.
Structural search finds what code means, while regex finds what it looks like on the page.