damn claude, that’s a lot of commits | AI Focus
April 1, 2026
The week of September 29 2025, there were 27.7 million public commits on GitHub. Claude Code accounted for 180,000 of them, about 0.7%. By the week of March 16 2026, total weekly commits had grown to 57.8 million (itself a 2.1x increase, likely driven in part by AI tooling), and Claude Code accounted for 2.6 million, or 4.5%. All AI coding tools combined now sit at roughly 5% of every public commit on GitHub. For context, GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 report recorded 986 million code pushes for the year, with monthly pushes topping 90 million by May 2025, and that trajectory hasn’t slowed down.
Claude Code went from 0.7% to 4.5% of all public GitHub commits in six months
Firstly, how did I not know that Semi Analysis had a podcast!
Here Paul Kinlan has a deeper look into the numbers associated with coding agent commits to public repositories on GitHub Actions. There’s certainly a bunch of caveats here, but still the numbers are remarkable.
