The scale of growth they’re dealing with is insane.
reply“There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.”
Source: GitHub COO on April 3, 2026. https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
That really does put it in perspective. Wow.
replyWhat's causing that growth? AI bots spamming commits?
replyYep
replyI wonder if there is any correlation between them moving towards Azure.
replyhttps://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
They are dealing with vastly more activity as a result of AI usage. It's that simple.
replyThey’re pushing out AI slop as production services
replyI see Microsoft mandated AI is doing wonders. For self hosters and Linux enthusiasts.
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