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Git as the wrong abstraction for ML artifacts

April 3, 2026clem

clem argues Git is a poor fit for most ML data like checkpoints and traces, and says Hugging Face built Buckets for fast, cheap, mutable storage instead.

Hot take: Git was the wrong abstraction for 90% of ML data.
Checkpoints, optimizer states, training logs, agent traces - none of this needs version control.
It needs fast, cheap, mutable storage.
So we built Buckets.
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