[dfee]

Very interesting. I’m not sure if it’s actually the case, but I end up doing a ton of maintenance on BUILD files every day. I’ve become a sort of mini-master of designing target DAGs - in a way that’s upfront costly, but pays for itself over time with fast(er) rebuilds: I get very conservative with structure.

When deps are automatically gathered, do you tend to see that developers’ discipline becomes softened and code becomes highly interdependent again?

> In Guice, this would involve maintaining 23 BUILD files containing 622 individual java_library targets, each with many dependencies and exports listed. In larger monorepos, there’d be even more.

I’m all too familiar.