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

devin · 2026-10-16T19:43:19

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 · 2026-10-16T20:35:48

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

JackSlateur · 2026-10-16T19:41:02

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)

Rapzid · 2026-10-17T07:08:54

This might be one of those things were everyone on the team takes a 30 minute lunch instead of 60 and just nobody clocks out to get the 1 hour extra over time.. And everyone just kinda ";) ;) ;) Working from our desk while eating lunch ;) ;) ;)"

dfunckt · 2026-10-17T05:28:59

Absolutely, at this rate most software would be complete in a few hours. I may lack imagination but wtf are you changing? Endlessly refactoring? That’s spinning your wheels renamed as productivity.

JamesSwift · 2026-10-16T20:59:51

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:

aacid · 2026-10-16T19:35:57

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 · 2026-10-16T19:41:37

Have you used Claude Code?

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

leoqa · 2026-10-16T19:46:24

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 · 2026-10-16T21:24:24

> 40 PRs open

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

leoqa · 2026-10-19T18:46:45

Alas, I am the product of my environment

_verandaguy · 2026-10-16T19:39:49

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 · 2026-10-16T19:39:20

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

Andrex · 2026-10-16T19:42:08

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.

xyzsparetimexyz · 2026-10-16T22:58:41

haha I do like that analogy.