GitHub saw 7.4B commits in Sep., adding 4M CPU cores+160 PB storage to keep up

ckdarby

This must be squeezing GitHub per user margins, no?

ramon156

well, then do something about it ?! this seems like an insane solution. just keep throwing hardware at it until you run out of cash, i guess

reacharavindh

GitHub lets me create public and private repos.. with a free account.. how are they making money?! Why are they throwing hardware at this explosive growth of repos with LLMs?

lofaszvanitt

160pb in SSD?

ChrisArchitect

Related: Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commit... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280770 )

faangguyindia

Here's a thing Users spend tokens on DeepSeek, Claude, and others -> generate variations of projects uploaded to GitHub -> Microsoft (GitHub's owner) -> trains LLMs on this -> ends up with better models. No matter what model a user may use at any price point, microsoft can distill it. It's distillation at a higher level most good programmers aren't going to commit garbage solutions; they'll push it to a git remote once they see it actually solves a problem they are trying to solve, and since the git commits and their messages are also AI generated, you've good visibility into the user's intention and resulting edits to the codebase. They want to capture it all.

ab_wahab01

Want to know how many of those commits from AI agents and how many from people.