# OpenAI's Will Depue says a monorepo gives every engineer access to everything

> Original title: it’s so hard to get people to understand this. literally everything is on slack and github. a monorepo means every single random new grad...

- Source: will depue
- Published: 2026-10-28T21:48:46.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/vkgjasdq1vr4d9vln6k8qxl29
- Original: https://x.com/willdepue/status/2115561437620064553

## Summary

Will Depue, an OpenAI employee, says that because everything is on Slack and GitHub, a monorepo lets every new grad access all internal code, even when their job is changing button colors on ChatGPT.

## Post

it’s so hard to get people to understand this. literally everything is on slack and github. a monorepo means every single random new grad has access to all of it. even if their job is, i’m not joking, changing the color of the buttons on ChatGPT