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Oct 13, 2026, 11:20 PM@jonny @mjd with git, linus in his infinite wisdom decided on storing the full file to keep git simple, and to massively speed up checkouts. anthropic realized this approach also has drawbacks, actually, and talks to us as if changesets are this radical new invention they came up with, and not the norm outside of basically every other version control system other than git.
idk, the fact that they go from "now version control is becoming the bottleneck from code churn and gigabytes(!!) of code" to "we will write (vibe?) our own version control to fix this" rather than ask if they aren't fundamentally going in the wrong direction in some way, is deeply unimpressive.