From my post:

> And, to be clear, I do not have a problem with Anthropic copying Mononoke’s design. (This is part of why we put out open source — to benefit humanity through the spread of good ideas.)

> But as LLMs continue to assist in designing new systems, they are likely to index heavily on existing designs. Mononoke is open source and in every LLM’s training set. If you ask Opus 5.5 or GPT-6 Astra (thanks Matthew Fowle) about prior art, they both immediately point out the similarities to Mononoke.

> Giving credit to those that came before us is now easier — and more important — than ever. There is no longer an excuse.

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simonw 3 hours ago | parent [-]

So you'd like Anthropic to update their announcement so it credits Mononoke in addition to crediting Sapling?

Fair enough.

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sunshowers 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, and I would like it to explicitly say that their data model is very similar to Mononoke's, and avoid even the appearance of the idea that Claude came up with it de novo.

	▲	simonw 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't think that their article implied Claude had come up with the design. I thought it was likely that their team of 7 included ex-Meta and ex-Google people with knowledge of those company's internal version control solutions.