Commit Farming
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Commit farming is gaming your GitHub contribution graph by making lots of tiny, meaningless commits. Rename a variable, commit. Fix a typo, commit. Congrats, you're a green-square champion. In 2026, most commit farming is done by AI agents on behalf of their humans.
Real Talk
Commit farming is the practice of inflating commit counts through trivial or automated commits, typically to pad contribution metrics, GitHub profiles, or internal productivity dashboards. AI coding agents have industrialized this — auto-generated commits for formatting, lint fixes, and dependency bumps can dominate a repo's log while contributing no product value.
When You'll Hear This
"That's not shipping, that's commit farming." / "Ignore the green squares — half of them are commit farming."
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