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Related: GitLab's CEO post in Twitter[1] doesn't inspire confidence as well. A direct quote: "generational rebuild of git, the monolith giving way to composable, monetized services with agent-first APIs".

Can you imagine /usr/bin/git rewritten into a set of composable, monetized services with agent-first APIs?

[1] https://twitter.com/bstaples/status/2054227448204754963

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You are missing some context. Full quote below.I believe it is just a fancy way to say that the are rebuilding their backend to make it more scalable

>>>5a/ Machine-scale infrastructure.

>>> Others are bolting AI onto platforms built for human-rate commits. Git itself wasn't designed for agent-rate work.

>>> We're rebuilding the underlying infrastructure for machine scale: a generational rebuild of git, the monolith giving way to composable, monetized services with agent-first APIs.

> Git itself wasn't designed for agent-rate work

/bin/ls wasn't designed for agent-rate work either.

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