Git is basically fine even though the verbs are backwards - e.g. you shouldn't need to name branches, commits should be far more automatic, but the basic mechanisms are fine.
I think the core conceptual difference between a stacked diff and PRs as we use them in open source is the following:
A PR is basically a cyberspatial concept saying "I, as a dog on the internet, am asking you to accept my patches" like a mailing list - this encourages trying to see the truth in the whole. A complete feature. More code in one go because you haven't pre-agreed the work.
Stacks are for the opposite social model. You have already agreed what you'll all be working on but you want to add a reviewer in a harmonious way. This gives you the option to make many small changes, and merge from the bottom
Phabricator is open source and has been for years. It has had a bumpy ride over the last few years though. Although I guess having written that I assume the internal meta one is much better
Huh, that's news to me. I had to do some googling and the only one I could find was by Phalicity which seems to be from a Meta employee who left and made it into a company (a la Statsig, or to some extent Graphite)
Seems that company shutdown though a while ago and it got forked into Phorge, but either way I assume there's some divergence from what's internal at this point.
Still I'll look into it, it does look neat and might suit my preferences still. Thanks for the headsup :)
Because or in spite of? Claude code works because of Claude being good and network effects. Agentic coding tools are maybe the dumbest code ever for the level of popularity they have.
Debatable. Making money is more about structure than being right as per se e.g. short vol is usually right...
The concept overall is basically ok though I think e.g. agents 100% going to be a big thing in finance but it's about man machine synthesis.
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