A few months ago I read about Anthropic's experiment of releasing a swarm of agents to write a functioning C compiler and it made me wonder about the feasibility of using that same approach to accomplish something I've been dreaming about for 15 years now , not long after we started GitHub - rewrite Git from scratch to be library based.

Git is of course a very complex piece of software. There are lots of " plumbing " commands, lots of higher level commands - it was put together incrementally by thousands of people over the last 20 years for projects large and small.…