Simon Willison’s Weblog·6 days ago·
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Anthropic redesigned its source-control system by building Scion and replacing Git after code-change volume increased. In May 2026 it averaged about 2,500 merged code changes per day, rising to over 30,000 per day by September. The switch introduced the “Antique” code review system and a new migration completed in five months.
Spranic is developing a spatial memory layer to record physical environments and how they change for physical AI. It aims to support reusable spatial context so robots can replan across many tasks instead of relying on statically planned deployments. The approach links that spatial data with knowledge graphs to preserve data provenance and make robot decisions more auditable.
Perplexity Computer launched Projects so people and AI agents can collaborate on long-running tasks in shared workspaces backed by a persistent, concurrent, traceable Git-style repository. Submissions have a median latency under 1.7 seconds (p99 under 8 seconds) with stale-base conflicts forcing the losing writer to replay and resubmit on the new head. This replaces per-session isolation with month-spanning version history and automatic state convergence while keeping large files and parsed document text managed outside the repository.
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