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

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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?

github is owned by Microsoft, their intention is not just to make money off of it

it's like Gmail and Google

They're using our data to create AI products that they sell to whales who subsidize our usage. Whether that's long term viable, I don't know.

I got an email a couple weeks ago that said my credit card expired and GitHub couldn't renew my subscription. I honestly don't know what that subscription is getting me though, what am I paying for? I used to pay for private repos I think, but that's included for free now.

private github pages

Up until recently I was paying for data storage (I have a couple of repos with LFS) but the billing on that was changed recently so now I'm under the threshold for payment.

GitHub Enterprise maybe? For a while there it was more expensive than GitLab Enterprise.

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.

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

at least 5 nines.

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

Did you read the numbers? The volume growth requires a top down examination of everything, which is not going to be fast or easy to do. From 65 million to 7 billion inside a couple years is a ridiculous surge.

  At its GitHub Universe conference on Wednesday, the company announced that it is now seeing 7.4 billion commits per month. To put that into perspective, developers pushed 65 million monthly commits to the platform in 2024.

This must be squeezing GitHub per user margins, no?

Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026

https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commit... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280770)

160pb in SSD?

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