Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit?

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TLDR

  • Next.js 15 + React 19 open-source tool benchmarks GitHub orgs against @steipete’s solo 2026 YTD commit output, normalized as “1 Peter.”

Key Takeaways

  • 1 Peter = @steipete’s verified 2026 YTD public GitHub activity (commits, PRs, issues); Microsoft scores 1.84, Google 0.66.
  • Peter Density (Peters per active contributor) corrects for org size, flagging the “5,000 engineers vs. one guy” distortion.
  • No database, no auth, no client-side secrets; GitHub token is server-side only via Next.js App Router.
  • Public preview ships with cached snapshots for Supabase, Microsoft, Google, AWS, Vercel, and Linear – no env vars needed to run locally.
  • Tiers range from “GitHub Intern Energy” (<0.1) to “Industrialized Peter” (>=5.0); explicitly not a productivity or hiring signal.

Hacker News Comment Review

  • The single comment points out that Microsoft’s 1.84 figure only reflects public GitHub activity, making private internal source code the obvious blind spot for any enterprise interpretation.

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