Public GitHub pushes double in one year to 408M per quarter amid AI-generated code surge
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-11-09
An analysis of GitHub Innovation Graph data shows quarterly pushes to public repos grew steadily from 81M in early 2020 to 209M, then doubled within a single year to 408M. The author reads this as AI-generated content flooding public repositories — 'the pretraining tokens are flowing.' Data covers Q1 2020–Q2 2026, public repos only, with bot accounts excluded.
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