Anthropic says daily code changes merged into its monorepo grew from about 2,500 in May to over 30,000 by September, driven largely by Claude writing and iterating on code autonomously. To handle that scale, the company built and fully migrated to a new version control system called Scion within five months, along with a code review tool, code search, and an access-management system.
anthropic.com
· 2026-10-13
A worker identifying himself as a 'Legacy Media Completion Specialist' describes his job shredding and burning antique books after they've been sliced apart and scanned to train generative AI models. The satirical account follows revelations from a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, in which unsealed court documents showed the company used 'destructive scanning'—cutting spines off physical books to scan them faster, then discarding the remains—and allegedly tried to conceal the practice.
mcsweeneys.net
· 2026-08-29