About Claude - One in Twenty-Five

SHOW NOTESOne in twenty-five commits on GitHub is now written by Claude Code. That number doubled in a single month and is projected to reach one in five by the end of 2026. But the more interesting question isn't the size of the figure — it's why looking at it clearly is harder than it should be.**In this episode:**- The SemiAnalysis findings: 4% of GitHub public commits, 42,896x growth in 13 months- Boris Cherny's 22 pull requests in a single day — and what that reveals about authorship- Anthropic's own internal research: how its engineers are actually using Claude Code- Why the aggregate and the individual don't speak the same language- The question some engineers are asking quietly: are the skills they're not using skills they're keeping?**Links:**- SemiAnalysis: Claude Code and the GitHub commit data (February 2026)- Anthropic internal research: Claude Code usage among Anthropic engineers (August 2025)- Boris Cherny post on X: 100% AI-authored code, 22 PRs in a dayWebsite - aboutclaude.xyz🦤 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.