Anthropic built its own source control and migrated off git as merges hit 30K/day

itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-10-14

In an engineering blog post, Anthropic revealed that its merged code changes exploded from 2,500 per day in May to over 30,000 per day in September, as AI agents churned out code — bottlenecking developer infrastructure designed for human scale.

Anthropic spent five months building a new version control system and fully migrated its monorepo off git. Engineers across the industry note this reflects a broader shift in how development workflows must adapt to agent-scale coding.

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