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AI Grew Up on Git

AI Grew Up on Git
The Git infrastructure that raised AI and what AI is now doing to it.
 • Hugo
AI Grew Up on Git, Part 8: What Version Control Controls
A hash never promised the code was good. It promised the code was unaltered. Twenty years and one industry-wide effort later, that is still the whole…
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AI Grew Up on Git, Part 7: The Author Is Not a Person
A signature has always meant a person vouched for the code. When the thing proposing a change might not be a person, that promise has to be rebuilt.
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AI Grew Up on Git, Part 6: The File That Refuses to Diff
Git’s entire value rests on one promise: it can show you exactly what changed. For a model’s weights, that promise quietly stops applying, for a reason…
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AI Grew Up on Git, Part 5: What $7.5 Billion Actually Bought
In 2018, Microsoft bought GitHub for its developers and its cloud. Three years later, the deal held something nobody had priced: the exact fuel a new…
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AI Grew Up on Git, Part 4: The Paper You Could Run
For centuries, checking a claim meant rebuilding the work from prose. Machine learning, raised on Git, learned a different habit: clone the paper, pin…
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AI Grew Up on Git, Part 3: The GitHub of Weights
Hugging Face copied GitHub’s playbook and aimed it at the one file GitHub could never hold: the model weight, a gigabyte of numbers Git was built to…
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AI Grew Up on Git, Part 2: GitHub Didn’t Invent the Pull Request. It Socialized It.
Git already knew how to move code between strangers. GitHub’s real invention was making strangers want to, and that social layer is where modern AI’s…
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AI Grew Up on Git, Part 1: Trust No One, Hash Everything
How a licensing betrayal taught a version control system to trust nobody, and why every open model, framework, and reproducible paper in AI inherited…
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