OpenAI builds Pando Git backend to handle Codex-driven commit surge
The gist
OpenAI built Pando, a Git backend cutting median push latency nearly 5x and serving nearly a petabyte daily.
The figures are OpenAI's own; AI-agent coding is straining source-control tools industry-wide.
How it unfolded
- 2024 -Q1Baseline quarter for OpenAI monorepo commits, against which later growth is measured.
- Apr 2026Pando went into production and began serving traffic after about 10 weeks of development.
- Nov 2, 2026OpenAI published an engineering post detailing Pando, saying it cut median push latency by nearly 5x (nearly 80% lower) and now serves nearly a petabyte of Git data per day.