Post #3958334
2026-07-20 11:28 UTC
Daft ai project of the week: “lore”, a version control system that should not be confused with another vcs of the same name open-sourced by epic games a few weeks ago.
lore does not track your code. it tracks the prompts, notes and decisions that produced it. you commit intent. when you want code, you run lore materialize: it replays the accumulated intent into a brief, and an agent reconciles the working tree to match it.
the code is build output. the intent is the source.
…which would be great, if the output of llms were deterministic, and generally it is not. This means rolling back a change to undo or fix something is just another spin of the roulette wheel, with the analogy being reinforced by the number of tokens you’ll have to buy and burn to do a rebuild. It looks like it still needs a real vcs behind the scenes, given that it isn’t entirely self-hosting, but maybe I misunderstood something.
You might wonder if this is some kind of satirical work, or perhaps piece of performance art, but I’m fairly certain it isn’t… the creator and sole human author (naturally, claude is the only other “contributor”) is a big fan of something called “open audio protocol” and a project called “audius” which came about by someone asking what if spotify and soundcloud, but on the blockchain? With ai agentic integration?
github.com/lorevcs/lore
Replies (6)
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@swlabr@awful.systems 2026-07-21 02:51
I’ve always thought that the ability for a VCS to show me exactly what my codebase looked like at any point in the past wasn’t as dementia-simulating as I’d like
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-07-21 06:15
Wait, did I get that right and it reruns the prompts every time you want to look at the code? Holy token costs batman.
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@JFranek@awful.systems 2026-07-21 10:00
Considering this is the logical endpoint of the “LLM’s are just like compilers bro” line of thought, I’m not surprised at all.
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-07-21 11:25
kayfabe vcs
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@BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2026-07-21 13:12
Finally a VCS that simulates the horrific results of cvs merge gone wrong, 20 years since the last time I used cvs.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-07-22 11:45
I know we’re all familiar with the metaphor of LLMs as roulette wheel, but I think there’s some real craft to turning that into Russian roulette.