On one hand, we speak of code its authors never read, never share, and never accept patches. So the entire point of git is moot.
On the other hand, some lower-level tools have to be simple, reliable and efficient. Here, sharing is critical. Even the authors of the post shared some incremental improvements to git. Here, the scalability story is moot.
I think git is becoming a protocol. One product can no longer cover these cases.
agents benefit from the same abstractions as humans do and they also benefit from a version system where the history can be tracked back where merch conflicts become obvious and so on
What got us here won't get us there perhaps? Can you tell why open source started to exist in first place? Wasn't that a way to crowdsource manual labour, and this reason is not valid anymore, as cost of this spiecif labour is near zero?
Depends on the problem those million pages solved. If it meant the government sent me a prepopulated tax form that I could just sign if I agreed with the numbers and be done - yes, I would be extremely excited.
Then you can do the whole file process. For most people the government gets all the data. The filing process is purposely keeping tax companies in business today.
The point of my response is that the analogy was broken without saying what adding those pages could provide.
Right, but now there are a million extra pages in the filing process. Many more companies would be kept in business to deal with the extra garbage!
The analogy isn't broken. Your objection didn't really make sense, because adding pages to the tax code makes the tax code strictly more complicated. Your response just ignored the case where that complexity actually matters.
I am watching OpenAI's output, and while a lot of it is absurdly impressive, I can not even begin to imagine what kind of activity of theirs justifies a through-output of 5 petabytes of -GIT COMMITS-. That's not their data sets, that's not their models, that's not their math library. That's their code.
They're rengineering Git for scale, but like, why is there a demand for scale at all? If i saw an employee flipping the same number on an excel file over and over, I'd fire them, and yet they're perfectly happy running agents that do that and setting up meetings and writing blogposts about how much they improved their spreadsheet number randomization factory.
On the other hand, some lower-level tools have to be simple, reliable and efficient. Here, sharing is critical. Even the authors of the post shared some incremental improvements to git. Here, the scalability story is moot.
I think git is becoming a protocol. One product can no longer cover these cases.