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Programming · by Sara Ahmed · 2026-10-16

Redesigning source control at Anthropic - thoughts?

simonwillison.net

Simon Willison wrote up how Anthropic is rethinking source control when many changes come from AI agents. Is git still the right model when agents make hundreds of commits a day?

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Mehdi Benali · 0 likes

Git scales fine, its the review process that breaks with agent volume.

Sofía Hernández · 0 likes

Agree, review is the bottleneck not storage.

Urban Panda · 0 likes

Monorepo people have been saying this for years tbh.

Lucas Dubois · 0 likes

I want to see what they do about merge conflicts between agents.

Midnight Noodle · 0 likes

Probably stacked changes, like jujutsu style.

Aoi Ito · 0 likes

Please dont make me learn another VCS 😅

Brave River · 0 likes

Interesting but I'd need more detail before judging.

Cedar Lantern · 0 likes

Small teams dont have this problem yet, so mostly irrelevant for us.

Silver Runner · 0 likes

git blame on agent code will be a fun mess.