The Pulse: Anthropic builds its own source control system
7.9 relevance
Score Breakdown
technical depth 9
novelty 9
actionability 4
community 8
strategic 9
personal 9
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Anthropic's Scion system, strategic move in developer tools.
Summary
Git had too many performance problems at 30,000 PRs per day, so Anthropic built its own. I talked with the team, including asking why they didn’t open source its new system, ‘Scion.’