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Building AI Native Repos: Seperating Knowledge from Work

As I’ve become a more AI-Driven developer I’ve started to realize that our software repos need to change. And a big part of that change is around documentation. Repos were have always been designed around two consumers: 1) human developers and 2) build/deploy pipelines. For the humans, we organized our code, add comments to code, and occasionally left a few TODO files lying around. For the pipelines, we made sure everything needed to independently build the solution was in the repo and had relative references. ...

August 23, 2026 · 8 min · Nicolas Nowinski