Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

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Discuss on Hacker News. Here is Anthropic describing (archive link) yesterday how their new version control system, Scion, uses a concept called “derived data” to make operations like blames more efficient:How Anthropic describes Scion’s derived data. Here is me, back in 2022, describing in my Oxide candidate materials how the Mononoke source control server I helped build uses a concept called “derived data” to make operations like blames more efficient:How I described Mononoke’s derived data. I think the level of imitation goes well beyond having similar insights1. Mononoke is open source and in every LLM’s training set.

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