Dylan Patel on

ai adoption

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  1. Patel argues companies cannot pause to measure ROI because experimentation is the only path to finding AI value.

    “So how one say, oh, pause, let me measure value, when trying a bunch of stuff is the only way you can actually get to figuring out where the value is versus what doesn't work?”

    12:08 · RAISE Summit · 22 Jul 2026 · permalink
  2. Patel reports Claude Code doubled to 4% of GitHub commits in January alone, with overall AI coding likely at 10%.

    “Just in this month just in January, it went from 4% of or 2% of commits on GitHub to 4% of GitHub commits were done by Cloud Code.”

    21:14 · Latent Space · 26 Feb 2026 · permalink
  3. Patel notes 2% of GitHub commits are AI-generated against $2 trillion in global software wages.

    “You can disable that where it's not automatically committed. But 2% of GitHub commits today are Cloud Code. $2,000,000,000,000 of software wages paid in the world.”

    51:51 · The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck · 5 Feb 2026 · permalink

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