About this episode
Steve discusses Jujutsu version control and its implications on the software development landscape with Kris.
Steve is back to talk JJ (Jujutsu version control) and the related product, ChangeSet, that he works on at East River Source Control. Kris and Steve trace why the GitHub monoculture is finally cracking, what JJ does that Git can't, and Steve's hypothesis that AI agents are pushing companies toward monorepos. Then the pair discuss the Opus 4.7 regression debate, the shift from "always use the frontier model" to using LLMs as one tool among many, and a quick discussion of the Tim Cook to John Ternus handoff at Apple. We've got supporter content, of course! This week that includes Steve's broader thesis that it's easier to scale a big tool down than scale a small one up, why GitHub's pull request model warped how people use Git, auto-rebase and conflicts as first-class citizens in JJ, AI subsidies, and a Bun being ported to Rust. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Show Notes: JJ Table of Contents: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Episode 70…
People in this episode
Host: Kris
Guest: Steve
Topics covered
- Jujutsu version control
- ChangeSet
- GitHub monoculture
- AI agents
- monorepos
- scaling tools
- pull request model
Keywords
- JJ
- ChangeSet
- GitHub
- AI
- monorepos
- pull requests
- scaling tools
- Opus 4.7
- Bun
- Rust
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: East River Source Control, GitHub, Apple
Products: JJ (Jujutsu version control), ChangeSet, Bun, Rust
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