GitHub Monthly Commits Hit 7.4 Billion as AI Agent Code Flood Forces Infrastructure Overhaul

GitHub logged roughly 7.4 billion commits in September, more than five times a year earlier, largely driven by AI agents. To handle the surge, it added 4 million CPU cores, 160PB of fast storage and 50Tb/s of network capacity this year, prompting a major infrastructure rebuild.

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