Steve Klabnik's ERSC argues Git isn't the future of source control in the agent era
rseroter · x · 2026-09-12
East River Source Control (ERSC), co-founded by Steve Klabnik, has publicly shared its thinking on what comes after Git.
- Core thesis: "We do not believe that Git is the future of source control." The new system will speak the Git protocol while changing how the storage layer works.
- Context: agentic development produces code faster than ever, ballooning repo sizes, increasing active branches, and causing merge contention. Agents favor monorepos for context access, worsening these issues.
- The post reviews VCS history (CVS, SVN, Perforce, Mercurial, BitKeeper, etc.) and notes development environments are moving to the cloud.
- No product announcement yet, but one is promised soon.
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