Nathaniel Whittemore

Last year, GitHub celebrated a huge expansion with vibe coding allowing first-time coders to come online.

GitHub saw 1 billion code commits throughout the year for the first time.

This year, GitHub is seeing 275 million commits per week, putting them on track for 14 billion commits by the end of the year at the current pace.

And the numbers are still climbing.

GitHub COO Kyle Daigle said, Since January, every month, every week almost now has some new peak stat for the highest usage rate ever.

And while Daigle attributed the change to both agents and humans, it's clear that AI-enhanced coding is behind the massive increase in throughput.

Commits to public repos from Cloud Code have swelled 25x in the past six months, reaching 2.5 million last week.

Now, unfortunately, the surge in the amount of code being pushed is revealing limits in GitHub's infrastructure.

Outages are becoming more frequent, and many are expressing issues with the platform.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger complained last week, I keep hitting quota limits from GitHub's API.

This hasn't been designed with agents in mind.

Kyle Daigle responded to these types of concerns, saying that GitHub is, quote, pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening their core features.

For now, it is just one more piece of evidence around how things are changing and how quickly.

Lastly today, Anthropic has lost the second round of their legal battle against the Pentagon as the case gets more convoluted.

On Wednesday, a federal appeals court in D.C.

denied Anthropic's application to suspend their supply chain risk designation pending a full hearing.

The three-judge panel wrote in their order,

In our view, the equitable balance here cuts in favor of the government.

On one side is a relatively contained risk of financial harm to a single private company.

On the other side is judicial management of how and through whom the Department of War secures vital AI technology during an active military conflict.