Rohan Paul: The agent economy is taking over, with GitHub commits reaching 7.38 billion in September
Citing data, Rohan Paul said that GitHub recorded 7.38 billion commits in September 2026, more than five times the figure a year earlier. To handle the flood of agent-generated code, GitHub has added 4 million CPU cores, 160PB of high-speed storage, and 50Tb/s of network capacity this year. A traffic surge on August 17 caused a 7-hour-47-minute outage affecting authentication, Actions, pull requests, and Copilot, and GitHub is migrating to multi-region Azure deployments and refactoring Git to decouple storage from compute.
Citing data, Rohan Paul said that GitHub recorded 7.38 billion commits in September 2026, more than five times the figure a year earlier. To handle the flood of agent-generated code, GitHub has added 4 million CPU cores, 160PB of high-speed storage, and 50Tb/s of network capacity this year. A traffic surge on August 17 caused a 7-hour-47-minute outage affecting authentication, Actions, pull requests, and Copilot, and GitHub is migrating to multi-region Azure deployments and refactoring Git to de
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