GitHub recorded more than 1.2 billion commits in one week this October, representing over 400% growth compared to the same period a year earlier, according to a November 6 blog post from the company. This single week’s activity exceeded all commits GitHub received throughout 2025.
While code generation has accelerated, other development activities have not kept pace. A study by Faros AI found that pull requests spent 441% longer in review when teams moved from low to high AI adoption, according to GitHub’s post.
The company attributes the gap to AI tools primarily accelerating implementation while planning, review, evaluation and production investigation remain bottlenecks. GitHub is positioning its Copilot tool and related agent features as addressing these broader workflow stages beyond code generation.
The blog post describes using Copilot in collaboration tools like Slack and Teams for planning, creating GitHub Issues from requirements, and using GitHub Agentic Workflows for issue triage. The company did not provide data on how these features affect the review-time gap it cited.