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mixtureoftakes • today at 7:33 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

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


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devin • today at 7:43 PM

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?

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JamesSwift • today at 8:59 PM

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 • today at 7:41 PM

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 • today at 7:35 PM

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

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