“Large, and full of fixes for issues found by AI (and more and more the patches have been suggested by AI too, although they often get rewritten).”
Almost 20,000 commits against the usual 15,000. “Healthier” means the flood now arrives during the merge window, not that it stopped. The honest bit is in the parenthesis: AI patches often get rewritten, so a human still pays for the machine’s first draft. And before anyone calls it a productivity miracle, a third of the changes are AMD GPU register offsets and bit masks.