Linus wrote Git alone in 10 days; Anthropic took 5 months with Claude
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-17
A viral jab making the rounds: Linus Torvalds famously wrote Git alone in 10 days, while Anthropic reportedly spent 5 months building a Git replacement with Claude. The contrast pokes fun at whether AI-assisted development actually makes foundational tooling faster, and is often cited in debates about real-world AI coding productivity.
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