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Patel: Two percent of global GitHub commits are generated by Claude Code

Dylan Patel · Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled” · Feb 5, 2026 · at 51:53

Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, highlights the adoption rate of Anthropic's Claude Code tool among software developers during a discussion on enterprise AI integration.

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“But two percent of GitHub commits today are cloud code.”

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