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Posted by Philpax 11 hours ago

Redesigning source control at Anthropic(www.anthropic.com)
570 points | 539 commentspage 9
jauntywundrkind 8 hours ago|
Related, I've always wanted to see someone other than Meta run EdenFS, to hear more reports of what it's like. Feels like there's massive overlap. [Edit: I've chatted with Astra Pro some on this too now, https://chatgpt.com/share/6ace7be6-68f8-83ea-ad68-0f9d144483... ]. https://github.com/facebook/sapling/blob/main/eden/fs/docs/O...

It's designed for container running, but ArtifactFS has some similarity in principle to me. The on-demand materialization. Quote: ArtifactFS is a Git-backed filesystem daemon (FUSE driver) in Go that mounts repositories as normal working trees while avoiding eager blob downloads. https://github.com/cloudflare/artifact-fs

I threw together my own jujutsu powered FUSE subtree project just the other night. This was basically one-shotted, just to see how it does it, to learn more, not really intended for use. But obvious overlap. https://github.com/rektide/jj-workfuse

sige11 4 hours ago||
A "scion-daemon" is not something I want to meet...
willmeyers 9 hours ago||
Seems similar to how version control works for large game and 3D assets. Neat.
alansaber 9 hours ago||
If any engineering org needed its own VCS, it would be anthropic.
nojs 8 hours ago||
Curious what happened at Anthropic HQ for a week in August
htrp 8 hours ago||
Sounds like they should stop using their mono repo
jaggederest 8 hours ago|
This is something I've been noodling at, splitting a monorepo into a bunch of component projects. I think, unless they have access to something that is wildly outside the scope and scale of current API models, the downside of having a monorepo is the context pollution, and there's no way to escape that.

I'm not fully sold either way yet but I think splitting might actually be critical for moderating the blast radius of agent intervention.

boredumb 7 hours ago||
maybe next month the agents will learn the 'commit locally' and 'git squash' skills
Goto80 7 hours ago||
So, where's the source code for Scion?

Oh, it's not available, what a pity. Why write a whole article about a thing no one can have? Maybe the code isn't so great after all? Or it's all just made up and doesn't even exist?

Anyway, this is yet another pointless ad from Anthropic trying to shill their AI on us.

gritzko 7 hours ago|
E = mc²

E energy necessary to integrate changes

m mass of the monorepo

c rate of commits

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