For decades, software engineers managed this tension through workflow hacks, but the arrival of agentic engineering has pushed the way we organize source code to its breaking point. When agents and humans work side-by-side, we are dealing with a hundredfold increase in volume that traditional version control wasn’t built to handle.
The problem is no longer just about where the code lives, but how we control the explosion of it. We are facing a structural crisis: how to maintain high development velocity without losing the ability to collaborate, compartmentalize, and secure sensitive layers, especially when part of the engineering workforce is not human anymore. So far, the market has tried to duct tape the surface and invent new workflows to fix a broken system. But this is not working.
We need a foundation that treats scale as a structural problem, not a management problem, allowing us to merge human intent with agentic output without the system collapsing under its own weight.
We are three founders building Josh because we believe the industry is looking at the wrong part of the stack. It is not our intent to add more layers to the workflow. We aim to redesign the data model so version control can finally handle the next billion lines of code, whoever, or whatever, writes them.
Christian, Vladislav, Marc