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Eridrus • yesterday at 9:25 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Cursor's blog on scaling Git makes me think that Anthropic just likes reinventing the wheel with their infinite token capacity: https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale

Cursor scaled git to way more writes/s than Anthropic did with their rewrite.


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nickg-anthropic • yesterday at 10:32 PM

The Cursor folks are doing cool work, but this is comparing apples to oranges; it works fundamentally differently and does not have a clear one-to-one mapping. Scion is solving many problems other than raw write speed (which is currently not even remotely close to the bottleneck and is trivially horizontally scalable in Scion).

Human-Cabbage • yesterday at 10:06 PM

Cursor shows “pushes per minute” while Anthropic shows “merges per day.” You can’t directly compare those and say Cursor’s system is more performant. Claude agents could be pushing a similar throughput of changesets into Scion, while some merge agent regularly takes batches and merges them into the trunk.

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