alt Hacker NewsI have to imagine this is related to: https://openai.com/index/scaling-git-at-openai/
And you'll see that mitchellh is a big fan of Pierre (and I think investor)
https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2036855931569651884?lang=en
For those who don't know Pierce, here's a demo from mitchellh:
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He is a minor investor. He commented on the acquisition at https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2118012675582280038
Who needs to review millions lines diff ? Even 10k lines diff ? What can you do with that ?
tangent: I think mitchellh was talking about moving Ghostty off GitHub? Any update?
i found Mitchell's answer to someone's question regarding why buy a open source software company, very interesting.
https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2118017893921436019?a=bCZdMwC...
code/coding isn't valuable. the problem solving skill is what set a good and bad engineer apart.
Gotta love that Github has decided that hiding largest diffs by default was a good idea. It's not like the amount of changes has any correlation to importance, right? And to top off the joke that they are, it's still amazingly slow, even when you skip the bulk of the code.