30,000 Merges a Day: Why Anthropic Abandoned Git for 'Scion'

This episode explores how Git, the industry-standard version control system, reaches its breaking point when confronted with extreme scale, such as Anthropic's 30,000 merges a day in a massive monorepo. Listeners will learn that Git's distributed architecture struggles with the demands of centralized, high-velocity development, leading to agonizingly slow operations and complex merge conflicts. This friction severely impacts developer productivity and makes version control a significant bottleneck.