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Number of git pushes in GH is way up. 320M in Q1 this year vs 80M in Q1 or 2020.

https://innovationgraph.github.com/global-metrics/git-pushes

Just because you haven't installed new software doesn't mean that new software doesn't exist.

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To quote the article: "Don't confuse motion with progress."

I remember fighting with business about this in a startup way before LLMs, more code, velocity or motion doesn't mean more value.

If I put on my optimist hat for a moment, I hope LLM's would finally make this obvious for people, more stuff !== more value. 250k lines of code a week isn't a flex IMO, it doesn't really mean anything out of context.

There's a difference between code checked into github vs production software.

So to answer the original question, "Where does all this supposed productivity go?": Sitting in a github repo somewhere, undeployed.

But also, having significantly more code churn doesn’t necessarily mean there is more or better software.

In fact, having more churn can lead to worse software due to diverging patterns and inconsistency

The question was "where is all that new software?".

I see somebody asking "where is that great software", but I think it's obvious to everyone that there is more (mostly bad) software.

There are a few one-shotted personal single page apps, yes. Mostly useless beyond an initial "that's cool" factor. Pre-LLM that was occupied by the "I hacked this in a weekend" niche.

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