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Anthropic's development of Scion highlights the critical infrastructure challenges posed by massive-scale AI agent workflows, which generate code change rates far exceeding traditional human-centric limits. The shift from Git to a custom centralized system was necessitated by the need to manage hundreds of petabytes of daily traffic and support millions of concurrent checkouts for CI, agent sandboxes, and research jobs. This case study underscores how advanced model capabilities are driving a fundamental rearchitecture of software engineering tooling to sustain exponential growth in coding velocity.
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Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Simon Willison2 min read

Redesigning source control at Anthropic (via) Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the past six months. In May 2026, Anthropic…

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