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KD Kyle Daigle On Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

“Last year I got on stage and said we've got a billion commits… In early March we were talking about, okay, we're at a billion to two billion a month. And now we're at about seven to eight billion commits a month. … We're adding more users per second than last year. It was one per second last year. It's more than one per second this year.”

Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · November 2026

“Last year I got on stage and said we've got a billion commits… In early March we were talking about, okay, we're at a billion to two billion a month. And now we're at about seven to eight billion commits a month. … We're adding more users per second than last year. It was one per second last year. It's more than one per second this year.” — Kyle Daigle, Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)

Context

Asked for numbers on the spike in GitHub usage, COO Kyle Daigle gives monthly commit counts and user growth, numbers that explain the strain on the platform as coding agents take off.

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Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) Around 01:48 into the episode
Kyle Daigle

…Like, I appreciate the patient support. And honestly, just like I get tweeted at or I see tweets and I'll respond. Like, if we're down, that sucks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sucks for me, sucks for you. Sucks for devs. And we, you know, we got to be up. You know, we got to meet everyone's expectations.

Wes Bos

Two things here. First, can you give us a just like some numbers as to like how much that spike has? Every chart in the last two years has been like that. Yeah. Like how, how much more has it been going up? Yeah.

Kyle Daigle

Yeah. So I mean, like when we were at universe last year, you know, I got on stage and I was like, you know, this year we've got like a billion, a billion commits, you know, and it's going to be a big deal. I think in early March, we were talking about, okay, we're at a billion to two billion a month, right? And now we're at like about seven to eight billion commits a month. And so like it is just growing incredibly quickly. It's really hard for us to measure like how many agents, you know, are on the platform too. But like we're adding more users per second than last year. You know, it was one per second last year. It's more than one per second this year. Oh man. I know. It's

Scott Tolinski

hard to like really understand that. Well, that's why we like, so

Kyle Daigle

originally I asked the events team. I was like, it's really hard to understand these numbers. So I said, why don't we drop ping pong balls? Because if we drop ping pong balls, you'll understand like here's five and then here's like 50,000 ping pong balls. We couldn't pull that off. So you got that…

Wes Bos

Mythbusters could have done it for the record. We're

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