There was a post some months back called "Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist" or something along those lines. This is just more of that. I am not impressed by 30 thousand "changes" per day in the slightest without significant added context. When I logged in and prompted Claude today, do I feel like I got +600,000 change value from when I logged in a month ago?
replyI’m horrified by it. There is no possible justification for it but it does explain their buggy products.
replylol right? So youre telling me they shipping 150,000 features this week? Or, maybe, they whack-a-moled 149,995 perf or bug regressions and shipping 5 new things. :shrug:
replyI, too, can write and merge 30000 changes per day. Even 300000 if I've up to.
replyOf course, just like "line of code" is a worthless metric, "change merge per day" is;
for i in {1..10000000}
do
echo "I am working !" >> README.md
git add README.md
git commit -s -m "feat: working with AI"
done
The premise is clear, is one agent can do what developer can, but quicker, why not speed up the whole workflow to match it?
replyHave you used Claude Code?
replyHave you seen the benefit of the churn of 1000 PRs a day?
It’s only about 10 per engineer. I’m not at Anthropic and before 2026 I was regularly hitting 1400 commits / year on my GitHub. If agents made me 2x faster (they have, review is still slow; I currently have 40 PRs open) that’d be the same rate.
reply> 40 PRs open
replyAh, so you've privatised the benefits and externalised the costs.
Right, but why do things this fast to begin with, especially for a product that's already publicly available?
replyI don't want to use a product that shifts under me as I use it several times a day. I want a product that actually moves slowly and works very reliably.
As an end user: why would I care about how many hundreds of releases a month are being pushed if maybe 1% of them have features I care about?
Speed is not the product.
More code output isn't a metric of success per se. Goodhart's law.
replyHumans don't operate at AI speeds. We're making the car go from 0 to 5000 mph in 1 second and the drivers are turning to goo in the seat.
replyhaha I do like that analogy.
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