04Engineering Work
Terax AI
“Workspaces with multiple git repositories are common, but most dev environments only recognize the workspace root, making it impossible to scope terminals, editors, and source-control views to a specific repository.”
01Co-authored nested repository targeting for a terminal-first AI-native development environment.
- Terax AI needed repository-aware source control for monorepos, submodules, and nested clones.
- Built a bounded lazy discovery system that recursively walks workspace directories, capped by depth, result count, and wall-clock time budgets.
- The original PR touched 55 files due to accumulated lint and type errors, causing the branch to drift too far from main.
- The maintainer stepped in, cleaned up the branch, and extracted only the feature delta for a clean merge.
- He co-authored me on the final merged PR.
- Lesson: keeping a branch clean and close to main matters more than the number of commits.