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Simon Willison: Merge State Visualizer — Bram Cohen's CRDT Vision for the Future of Version Control
Bram Cohen (BitTorrent inventor) published a coherent vision for CRDT-based version control that eliminates merge conflicts by treating history as a partially ordered set rather than a linear sequence. Willison fed the 470-line Python implementation into Claude Code to build an interactive merge state visualizer. The underlying idea — that merge conflicts are a solved problem if you model history correctly — has significant implications for multi-agent codebases where concurrent writes are the norm.
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