{
  "notice": "Please credit \"Is software solved?\" and the sources listed in credits when you reuse these numbers. They are our own aggregates. For original records, go to each source.",
  "id": "code-activity",
  "name": "Code activity",
  "question": "Are people still building?",
  "metric": "Git pushes worldwide on GitHub, latest quarter",
  "solvedIf": "Building gets so easy that code output keeps climbing",
  "value": "408M",
  "change": "+95%",
  "trend": [
    {
      "label": "2020 Q1",
      "value": 81
    },
    {
      "label": "2020 Q2",
      "value": 98
    },
    {
      "label": "2020 Q3",
      "value": 90
    },
    {
      "label": "2020 Q4",
      "value": 95
    },
    {
      "label": "2021 Q1",
      "value": 100
    },
    {
      "label": "2021 Q2",
      "value": 106
    },
    {
      "label": "2021 Q3",
      "value": 99
    },
    {
      "label": "2021 Q4",
      "value": 107
    },
    {
      "label": "2022 Q1",
      "value": 117
    },
    {
      "label": "2022 Q2",
      "value": 126
    },
    {
      "label": "2022 Q3",
      "value": 126
    },
    {
      "label": "2022 Q4",
      "value": 135
    },
    {
      "label": "2023 Q1",
      "value": 144
    },
    {
      "label": "2023 Q2",
      "value": 147
    },
    {
      "label": "2023 Q3",
      "value": 141
    },
    {
      "label": "2023 Q4",
      "value": 149
    },
    {
      "label": "2024 Q1",
      "value": 153
    },
    {
      "label": "2024 Q2",
      "value": 158
    },
    {
      "label": "2024 Q3",
      "value": 153
    },
    {
      "label": "2024 Q4",
      "value": 168
    },
    {
      "label": "2025 Q1",
      "value": 178
    },
    {
      "label": "2025 Q2",
      "value": 209
    },
    {
      "label": "2025 Q3",
      "value": 215
    },
    {
      "label": "2025 Q4",
      "value": 247
    },
    {
      "label": "2026 Q1",
      "value": 320
    },
    {
      "label": "2026 Q2",
      "value": 408
    }
  ],
  "trendLabel": "Worldwide git pushes per quarter, in millions.",
  "score": 48,
  "scoreReason": "Up 201% since ChatGPT launched.",
  "events": [
    {
      "month": "2022-11",
      "label": "ChatGPT launched"
    }
  ],
  "analysis": {
    "title": "Repositories and developers",
    "intro": "GitHub activity in 2026 Q2 and a year earlier.",
    "points": [
      "454M repositories saw activity, against 371M.",
      "209M developers, against 155M."
    ]
  },
  "fromHigh": "At its high",
  "status": "Git pushes increased",
  "rule": "Git pushes increased when pushes rise by at least 2% over the year.",
  "direction": "away",
  "checks": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-02",
      "value": "408M",
      "change": "+95%",
      "status": "Git pushes increased"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-01",
      "value": "408M",
      "change": "+95%",
      "status": "Still building"
    }
  ],
  "url": "/signals/code-activity",
  "api": "/api/signals/code-activity.json",
  "credits": [
    {
      "name": "GitHub Innovation Graph",
      "url": "https://github.com/github/innovationgraph",
      "signal": "code-activity",
      "license": "CC0 1.0",
      "credit": "Data from the GitHub Innovation Graph, released under CC0 1.0."
    },
    {
      "name": "npm",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/",
      "signal": "code-activity",
      "license": "No data license published",
      "credit": "Counts derived from the npm public downloads API."
    }
  ]
}