The very same week we signed our first ever angel investor for Plastic SCM, in early summer of 2005, Linus Torvalds announced Git. I had spent more than a year pitching investors to build a new version control, and suddenly the creator of Linux was building one himself. That week I understood the road ahead was going to be much harder than I had anticipated. I hadn’t felt that same electricity again in twenty years. Until a few months ago. While we all stopped coding manually around December 2025, something else was cooking: the biggest revolution in version control since 2005. Two big pushes happening simultaneously: the need to handle a much higher commit pace due to agents, and a sudden urge to replace GitHub. I’m going to reflect about these two forces plus what we can probably expect in the near future from version control as it both adapts and supports new ways of developing software. Fair warning: I’m anything but neutral.…