SMRTR ProgrammingMay 4, 2026Daring Fireball

Commits on GitHub Are Up 14× Year Over Year

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GitHub COO Kyle Daigle reports 275 million weekly commits in 2025—a 14× year-over-year increase—driven by AI generating entirely new code, fundamentally redefining what programming activity looks like.

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