I didn't expect this number to show up this year.

GitHub is on pace for 14 billion commits in 2026 so far. That's up from 1 billion in 2025. A 14x increase in a single year and most of it isn't humans writing code.
The load got so severe that Microsoft, which owns and runs the second largest cloud on earth, had to route traffic through AWS to keep the platform online. Nine service incidents in May alone. Availability dropped to 88.4%.
For every engineering team, infrastructure vendor, and cloud provider still sizing capacity for human-speed development the baseline just moved by an order of magnitude.