Nathan Labenz: belief

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…Repositories or a mono repo? Yeah, so there's about 15 projects. You know, each app I've been showing you is its own project. And by the way, I deliberately broke it down into projects, A, to keep the context manageable for the coding agent. And it's not like I tried different approaches and found that this was just my gut. So my gut was like microservices, basically, like keep each project as small as possible so the context is manageable. which was probably more important in the ancient days of January when I started this than it is today. Each has its own GitHub repo. Yeah, they're on GitHub. Each has its own database backend and its own little project or whatever in CloudFlare. So they're somewhat isolated to one another, but they invoke each other's APIs a lot. And I hadn't really planned this, but they're all on my hard disk-- in fact, on my Mac, all the Claude coding is in a Docker container. So I run Claude and dangerously skip permissions mode, but it's in a Docker container. All of these projects have their repo directories next to one another under one home directory in the Docker container, and so they can see each other's code. And sometime, at first, I would like... If there needed to be an API update, I would like ask the one agent to like tell me what I should tell the other agent and I would like manually copy it. But then I realized I can just like, okay, reach over into that other app, give it the API and use the API or whatever. Yeah, that's interesting. I think I'm following a fairly similar pattern, although probably in keeping with my generally less structured personality, I kind of start with everything in one repo, but then over time, especially if I want to share something, then I'll split it out into a separate repo. So it's kind of, anytime I want to just try something, it kind of goes into the sort of personal, private mono repo, but those things are at some point like how big is that promoted? How big is that mono repo?…

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