Simon Willison — 2026-04-04#
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Simon highlights a staggering growth in developer activity on GitHub, pointing to massive recent surges in both commit volume and GitHub Actions usage. This brief but potent link post captures the sheer scale of how rapidly AI-assisted programming and automated workflows are accelerating platform activity.
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[Quoting Kyle Daigle] · Source Simon shares a striking quote from GitHub COO Kyle Daigle that reveals an explosive surge in overall platform activity. Commit rates have jumped to 275 million per week, which is on pace for 14 billion this year compared to just 1 billion total commits in 2025. Additionally, GitHub Actions usage has skyrocketed to 2.1 billion minutes in just the current week alone, up from 1 billion minutes per week in 2025 and 500 million in 2023. This massive scale-up highlights the unprecedented velocity at which code is currently being generated, integrated, and tested across the developer ecosystem.