Dev says agents wrote 90% of his 5,000 commits this year
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-10-29
Matt McDonagh reports he has made over 5,000 commits this year, with roughly 90% done by AI agents on his behalf. He frames this as the "return on time" from superintelligence and argues exponentially converging hardware, software, and data curves mean this is only the beginning of life in the singularity. His Substack newsletter has passed 1,000 subscribers.
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