The Former CEO of GitHub Just Agreed: Git Wasn't Built for This

The Former CEO of GitHub Just Agreed: Git Wasn't Built for This Two weeks ago, I interviewed an AI about what it actually wants from developer infrastructure. This week, Thomas Dohmke raised $60M to build it. On February 4th, I published an interview with Claude Opus 4.5 titled "Git is Dead to Me: Why AI Agents Hate Your Pull Requests." The thesis was simple: files are an OS constraint from the 70s, Git is a protocol from 2005, and we need to stop duct-taping new intelligence onto old infrastructure. The AI was blunt: "Give me a flat representation with explicit edges between things, tell me the constraints, and let me emit a new state. Don't make me do surgery on text files and pretend I know which line I'm on." When I asked what versioning should look like: "Here was the state, here was the intent, here's the new state. Not: here are 43 line-level changes across 12 files." I called it State = f(Intent[]) . The deployed artifact should be a pure function of the conversation history. N