alt Hacker NewsGitHub is not agent scale.
Multiple companies are trying to create new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo.
It's like switching from horse buggies to automobiles, the whole worlds needs re-architecturing to handle the new load.
The age of boutique hand-coding is being replaced by the age of industrial software factories.
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julianlam • today at 12:50 PM
Why the heck would you want to do this. Using git as your undo chain sounds like a pretty awful thing to do.
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skinfaxi • today at 12:59 PM
This seems odd to me. Why would you need to commit every second?
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andyjohnson0 • today at 12:58 PM
> GitHub is not agent scale.
Is the scaling issue with git or github?
throwaway613746 • today at 2:04 PM
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> new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo.
This is not a particularly novel level of scale. Facebook's mercurial backend had to handle >5,000 developers committing to the singular monorepo long before LLMs were a thing