GitHub commits exploded from 1 billion to 14 billion in a single year
deliprao · x · 2026-10-22
Delip Rao notes GitHub went from 1 billion to 14 billion commits within a year — a 14x surge widely read as the footprint of AI coding agents, with machine-generated commits now dwarfing human ones and reshaping the structure of development activity.
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