Besides being hot, this take is very correct and points out to a fundamental tradeoff in the storage layer being centralized versus distributed git is distributed and that makes total sense for code which takes small space by its nature. it is cheap for everyone to duplicate it locally. this proved to be very useful over e.g svn, when devs could develop independently from the centralized server AI artifacts, however, are 1 million times bigger than code. in that case, the bottleneck becomes storage and network. decentralization and version control become lower priority. they can be sacrificed the tradeoff tilts towards getting the cheapest possible storage and transfer. because you will need a LOT of that I regret to announce to competitors that Hugging Face has already won this game when they acquired Xet. the tech just works, and the network effects are immense