We scored 50k PRs with AI – what we learned about code complexity

Show HN: We scored 50k PRs with AI – what we learned about code complexity

We scored 50k PRs with AI – what we learned about code complexity is a business in show hn launch.

Profile

I'm a CTO with a ~16-person engineering team. Last year I wanted real data on what was actually shipping, not guesswork or story point theater. So we built GitVelocity.Every merged PR gets scored 0–100 by Claude across six dimensions: scope (0–20), architecture (0–20), implementation (0–20), risk (0–20), quality (0–15), perf/security (0–5). Six dimensions added up, then scaled by change size — a 10-line fix scores lower than a 500-line refactor even at the same complexity. Full formula at gitvelocity.dev/scoring-guide.After scoring 50,000+ PRs across TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, Java, Elixir, and more, some things surprised us:Big PRs don't automatically score high. An 800-line migration wi

Its activity falls under show hn launch; the profile below is assembled from public directory data.

Its current recorded stage is Show HN launch.

Website: gitvelocity.dev