> ai and language aware merge drivers are helping so much here i really wonder if the world these “replace version control” projects were made for still exists at all.
I really wonder what kinds of magical AI you're using, because in my experience, Claude Code chokes and chokes hard on complex rebases/merge conflicts to the point that I couldn't trust it anymore.
the latest codex or opus 4.6 depending what works better. the trick is not to work on giant rebases at all. use commit stacks that constantly rebase on trunk so will constantly have small conflicts that are simple to resolve rather than waiting for giant headaches. another one is to use jj and resolve conflicts "through the stack" so you rebase your work stack, then resolve conflicts from the bottom commit up, one by one, not all at once.
I really wonder what kinds of magical AI you're using, because in my experience, Claude Code chokes and chokes hard on complex rebases/merge conflicts to the point that I couldn't trust it anymore.