I wonder what happened on May 11th

And what happened in Nov 2023

many of those commits are in private repos.

I've seen people pushing e.g. weather data to GitHub in regular intervals blowing up their commit numbers.

Just check this to find crazy numbers: https://committers.top/

The days with lots of commits start rather abruptly at the end of 2023, so it being some sort of automation seems plausible.

Lots of organic explanations for that.

A lone developer can get away with infrequent commits at no practical cost. Maybe something happened in 2023 that made them a more prolific committer.

Spending a little bit of my free moments throughout the day interacting with coding agents on my phone, it's almost impossible to not have solid dark green for every day.

These charts are less useful than they have ever been for determining how much code a person writes, but they are probably a good metric overall to measure the productivity gains going on in the industry overall.

wow, using coding agents from your phone is interesting. what's your workflow look like?

With ChatGPT Codex connected to GitHub it's pretty neat. From my phone I throw some tasks at it and go about my day and then check in with it later. After giving it some time, I come back and look at what it's done and kick off some more or look at diffs and create PRs right from my phone. It's fairly limited in what can be done from the phone so you'll need to have a laptop for anything more involved than eg spelling errors, but it's a very interesting view of the future.

This is the way.

This sounds like hell.

Makes me think a life changing burn out is coming soon.

I burn out if I don't take weekends off, its nasty.