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ANTHROPIC BUILDS ITS OWN SOURCE CONTROL SYSTEM

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Anthropic employs around 3,500 staff, but its coding output is closer to that of a company with 35,000 to 70,000 staff. Big tech companies like Google and Meta moved off Git a long time ago because it did not scale for them. Both built their own custom solutions, just like Anthropic did with Scion. This post provides some details about how Anthropic's custom source control system works.