Anthropic Ditched Git. Here’s Why Your Agents Will Too

Anthropic got tired of Git. With merges jumping from about 2,500 a day in May to more than 30,000 by September, a seven person team built Scion, a centralized, always online source control system designed for agents instead of people. Chris sees the start of rebuilding everything around agents, while Matt keeps pointing out that write ahead logs, RPC and server side merges are SVN and Perforce with better marketing, borrowed from Google's Piper and Meta's Sapling and Mononoke. Izar asks what happens when infrastructure gets so comfortable for agents that humans stop looking, and Matt notices the article barely mentions security until Chris finds the access control section. Along the way the hosts take on AI job interviews, Claude's excessive validation during an adversarial review, LLM knockoffs of Adobe, Microsoft and beehiiv, and why Norton is still selling fear to people who don't know better. Everything old is new again; it just runs a thousand times faster. Mentioned in this Episode: ➜ Redesigning source control at Anthropic ➜ Mononoke ➜ Geim becomes first Nobel & Ig Nobel winner ➜ Creator of Free Adobe Suite Strikes Again, Reverse Engineers Microsoft Office ➜ PhotoCraft Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open: Welcome Aboard the Starship Enterprise 00:02:07 - Mythbusters and Laser Blasters 00:03:35 - The Ig Nobel Awards 00:04:54 - From Levitating Frogs to a Real Nobel Prize 00:06:07 - An AI Negotiates a Lower Salary 00:06:44 - Job Interviews With a Model 00:07:52 - Resume Filters and Keyword Bingo 00:09:03 - Let Humans Do the Hiring 00:10:38 - Article Intro: Anthropic Doesn't Use Git 00:11:05 - Memory Lane: CVS and Visual SourceSafe 00:11:49 - Meet Scion 00:12:58 - A Seven Person Team With Unlimited Tokens 00:13:53 - Why Not Perforce or SVN? 00:15:12 - Built on Google's Piper and Meta's Sapling 00:16:31 - No Offline Mode in an Agentic World 00:17:42 - Matt's Case: An LLM Librarian for Your Repo 00:19:25 - Write Ahead Logs: Everything Old Is New Again 00:20:36 - Centralized, API Driven Source Control 00:21:54 - Not a General Replacement for Git 00:22:26 - Closed Source, and an Ad for Claude 00:23:11 - Is This Actually Exciting? 00:23:53 - Izar's Rebuttal: Optimizing Infrastructure for Agents 00:24:59 - SCN, Not SVN 00:26:20 - Where's the Security? 00:27:30 - It's Basically a Distributed File System 00:27:57 - Monorepos Are Back 00:30:12 - Claude's Excessive Validation 00:31:38 - Reasonable Security and Pepperidge Farm 00:33:35 - Inspired by Meta's Mononoke 00:35:01 - LLM Knockoffs of Adobe and Microsoft 00:36:30 - Cloning beehiiv in 24 Hours 00:38:56 - LifeLock, Norton, and Predatory Security Sales 00:42:03 - Closing Statements 00:44:37 - Outro Follow AI Security Table: ➜ Home: https://securitytable.ai/ ➜ X: https://x.com/SecTablePodcast ➜ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-security-table/ ➜ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AISecurityTable