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Why Anthropic Replaced Git with Scion, and What the Rest of Us Can Learn

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Pere Pages
Software Engineer
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In 2026, Anthropic's artificial intelligence (AI) agents began to merge more than 30,000 code changes a day into one repository, and git could no longer keep up. So Anthropic built its own source control system, Scion. Here is the problem it solves, how it works, and what it means for teams that will keep using git.