Pushing 4.7M Commits an Hour

The winning software teams will throw away orders of magnitude more code than they merge. I ran a benchmark against the custom git server I’m building, 4.79 million pushes per hour to a single repository across 1,408 branches (p50, 322ms). 27.8 million clones per hour of a repository containing the NextJS starter template (p50, 220ms). 4.79M commits won’t make it to master, but the frontier labs are running that many experiments at scale, and the rest of us will be soon. Anthropic wrote a working C compiler with a swarm of 2,000 Claude Code sessions coordinating over git Bun’s Rust rewrite did 695 commits/hr for two weeks DeepMind’s AlphaCode 2 generated 77 million program candidates for 770 submissions in competitive programming. Cognition is running Agentic MapReduce over their codebase to scan for security vulnerabilities. Modal can spin up a million sandboxes in seconds, but what’s the point if those sandboxes have nowhere to read or write? GitHub won’t be the place that the work…