Coding agentsAnthropic

Anthropic went from ~2,500 to 30,000+ merged code changes a day, so it replaced git for its monorepo

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In an engineering post, Anthropic says a seven-person team built Scion, an in-house version control system, plus a code review tool called Antique, and migrated in five months. Checkouts now take seconds instead of minutes, using 200x less CPU and memory than its old git mirrors. The team says its job was often to tell Claude "no."

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