The AI era of GitHub
The top 200 devs on the leaderboard run at ×1.5 the monthly pace since the AI era began. 1743k contributions, plotted against the landmark AI releases. A slice of the leaderboard, not all of GitHub.
AI era begins
Claude Code
model releasecoding tool
Who these devs are
Every tracked dev gets one of these seven badges from their contribution pattern. Tap any to meet a random one who carries it.
AI Supercharged+150 contributions a month or moreActivity went vertical once the models arrived.11% · 21 Riding the AI Wave+40 a month or moreA big lift once the AI era hit its stride.23% · 45 AI Explorer+8 a month or moreA modest but real bump — testing the AI waters.14% · 28 Steady Handno standout AI-era changeThe same reliable pace, AI or not.14% · 28 The Puristno gain, 300+ recorded eventsA long, real history the AI wave never needed to change.25% · 50 The Veteran200+ a month before AI, no big jump sinceAlready shipping at 10x long before AI arrived.6% · 11 Just Getting Startedunder 100 recorded eventsJust a few footprints on the graph so far.9% · 17
How this is measured
- Pool. The top 200 developers on the leaderboard by followers — a slice, not all of GitHub.
- Contributions. Public contribution history from 2021 onward; private-repo activity isn't in this aggregate.
- AI-era pace. The pool's average monthly contributions after the AI wave (late 2022) against before, as a multiplier — ×2 means twice the monthly pace.
- Archetypes. Each dev is bucketed by how much their monthly output changed — the same figure the leaderboard ranks by — with volume as the fallback; the bars are the pool's split.
- Markers. The landmark model and coding-tool releases, drawn on the same timeline.
- Freshness. Each dev's series is cached ~7 days; this page recomputes hourly.