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AI #190: Scion of the Times

L4 · DeveloperTools & ProductsLessWrong AI· 10/15/2026

Reveals how major AI companies are building custom tooling to handle exponential code growth, relevant for developers scaling AI infrastructure.

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Anthropic built Scion, an internal GitHub replacement optimized for their scale and code development style, created by a small team in five months.

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The amount of code being written at Anthropic continues to rise exponentially. It is being managed by Scion, their internal replacement for GitHub that is better suited to the scale and style of the operation, which they created with a small team in five months. This week also saw the release of two supposed frontier model models. Google has finally given us Gemini 4 Argon, along with a robust safety report. We do not yet know if Argon lives up to its benchmarks or internal hype. I plan to write

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