Reducing our monorepo size to improve developer velocity

That's a nice write up. I would have followed the same initial thought process as well but it's good to learn about where the host plays a part. To that end I do wonder if the behaviour would have been different on gitlab.

The tuned window and depth parameters part felt like you're skipping some interesting details, more info there would have been appreciated.

The bits about AI felt completely forced and irrelevant to the actual contents.