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▲ mixtureoftakes 3 hours ago

30 thousand changes merged per day? no. like just no. what are we doing? I'm trying to understand

▲devin 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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?

▲grey-area 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m horrified by it. There is no possible justification for it but it does explain their buggy products.

▲JamesSwift an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

lol 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:

▲JackSlateur 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I, too, can write and merge 30000 changes per day. Even 300000 if I've up to.

Of 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
(automerged PR, JOB IS DONE)
▲aacid 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The premise is clear, is one agent can do what developer can, but quicker, why not speed up the whole workflow to match it?

▲ActionHank 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have you used Claude Code?

Have you seen the benefit of the churn of 1000 PRs a day?

▲leoqa 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

▲IneffablePigeon an hour ago | parent [-]

> 40 PRs open

Ah, so you've privatised the benefits and externalised the costs.

▲_verandaguy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Right, but why do things this fast to begin with, especially for a product that's already publicly available?

I 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.

▲sp4cec0wb0y 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

More code output isn't a metric of success per se. Goodhart's law.

▲Andrex 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Humans 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.