I Am Just One Engineer Armed with AI

I made 295 pull requests across 49 GitHub repos and did 30 project releases burning ~1.2 billion AI tokens in ten days. I am just one Engineer armed with AI. That is a lot of typing I did not do. I certainly did not read or write any code. This is a follow-up to AI Wants to Eat Your Project Backlog, where I described working through old Mongoid issues on two bus rides. I kept going. The work expanded into new spelling tools in three languages, library features, CI maintenance, releases, and application upgrades. First, let’s count what actually happened. Then let’s talk about what these numbers mean, or don’t. The Numbers These are ten calendar dates, October 14 through October 23, 2026, with a cutoff of October 23 at 1:32 p.m. Eastern. measure count what it means opened 295 authored by dblock repositories 49 includes forks merged 257 of the 295 opened still open 30 awaiting review or further work closed unmerged 8 includes superseded work and approaches I abandoned all prs merged 271…