Git Breaks at Agent Scale. Anthropic’s Replacement Took Five Months and Ships to No One.
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In May 2026, Anthropic averaged roughly 2,500 code changes merged per day. By September, that figure had climbed to over 30,000 per day, a 12-fold increase in four months, according to company-reported data. That surge is a structural breaking point, and the company names what broke in its redesigning source control post: coding is no longer the bottleneck, and the constraint is the developer infrastructure built for human scale, namely source control, builds, and CI. That is the same bottleneck the four-layer stack report identified: infrastructure, not model quality, limits enterprise agent adoption, across memory, execution, tooling, and governance.
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