Breaking up a monolith takes years rather than months not because the work is hard but because the business keeps adding to it faster than you can pull pieces out.

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• A company on a monolith cannot use AI on it: no model in the next eighteen months will hold that codebase, so the monolith has to be broken up or rewritten. SYSteve Yegge11 Mar 2026similar wording
• Ship for three to six months with nobody reading the code and the codebase gets so bad that starting over is easier than fixing it — we ran a lights-off software factory and shut it down. DHDex Horthy15 Jul 2026similar wording
• Two people with agents can reach enterprise-grade codebase complexity in weeks -- what took organisations years, and they at least adapted to it as it grew. MZMario Zechner25 Mar 2026similar wording
• Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026similar wording
• Poor internal quality begins to slow a team down within a few weeks, so almost no project is short enough for cutting corners to pay off. MFMartin Fowler29 May 2019similar wording

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