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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

everyone knows that the best thing a piece of software can have is geometric growth in the amount of code it has

plot of the number of characters in the minified claude code releases over time. most of them historically are from npm, but more recent ones are decompiled versions of the bun executables from their github releases page. the line starts at around ~5 million in march of 2025, at first rising jjaggedly but steeply to a flatter period starting in july 2025. growth is roughly linear until march of 2026 at 12 million, where growth starts growing with some exponent higher than 1, terminating at 17 million currently.