> And they won't release the code.
This is the weirdest part, because you know, coding is solved, so anyone could create their own one, so why not publish it?
This is the weirdest part, because you know, coding is solved, so anyone could create their own one, so why not publish it?
Most big tech have a lot of stuff around SDLC that’s theirs and they couldn’t realistically release it given how specific its deployment, configuration and management is. The marginal benefit to generalizing it is so low that it’s negative.
This is almost certainly worse given the vibed out state of it.
Imagine waking up next week and Claude Code now ships free with builtin source control management via this tech with a better user experience than workspaces. Github and Microsoft would take an instant market share hit in the traffic that they swear is causing all of their outages. And then that cuts off Microsofts access to code to train their own LLMs on in the background, further hampering an Anthropic competitor in the AI race.
They can still do that without releasing the code, can't they?
And by the way things are done at this company, it's almost a given their whole codebase are litter'd with embarassing shit like hardcoded paths, server secrets, weirdo comments picked up from some random chat context and immortalized through Claude speak, etc. There's no way they'd be able to open source anything.
But all of this is besides the point -- the product was never a source control system (who cares about that anymore?), the product is _the narrative_. It does not matter if everything withers and dies as long as the narrative survives, and by that measure I'd say the goal has been achieved.