microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners
21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI
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Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 77% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
- Star growth includes 5 unexplained bursts, about 29,566 stars above the usual rate (24 % of all stars). Anyone can buy stars for any repo. (source 1)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
- A new star analysis that no longer finds unexplained bursts.
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Most commits in the last year come from bots.; Only 4 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.)
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 21
- Human commits, 90 days
- 44
- Human commits, 365 days
- 286
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 66%
- Last commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (3 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (3 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 8
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 4 days
Responsiveness: of 4 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
- Most commits in the last year come from bots.
- Only 4 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 172 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 152
Top committers
- leestott: 77% of commits
- koreyspace: 8% of commits
- hyoshioka0128: 4% of commits
- skytin1004: 2% of commits
- VikrantSingh01: 2% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteUnexplained bursts, confidence high
Bursts
- Oct 26, 2023 to Dec 2, 2023: about 17.2k more stars than usual, peak 2.6k in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jan 22, 2024 to Jan 23, 2024: about 310 more stars than usual, peak 296 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 26, 2024 to Mar 29, 2024: about 6.6k more stars than usual, peak 570 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 30, 2024 to Apr 10, 2024: about 7k more stars than usual, peak 2.4k in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jun 4, 2024 to Jun 10, 2024: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 520 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 13, 2024 to Jun 16, 2024: about 644 more stars than usual, peak 263 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 28, 2024 to Jul 12, 2024: about 6.6k more stars than usual, peak 2k in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 15, 2024 to Jul 22, 2024: about 431 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Aug 19, 2024 to Aug 22, 2024: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 1.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 5, 2024 to Oct 15, 2024: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 393 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 22, 2025 to Feb 7, 2025: about 3.3k more stars than usual, peak 669 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 3, 2025 to Mar 13, 2025: about 2.7k more stars than usual, peak 647 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 29, 2025 to May 6, 2025: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 484 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 26, 2025 to Jul 4, 2025: about 4.8k more stars than usual, peak 1.6k in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jul 24, 2025 to Jul 25, 2025: about 342 more stars than usual, peak 317 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 28, 2025 to Jul 30, 2025: about 431 more stars than usual, peak 364 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 11, 2025 to Aug 13, 2025: about 277 more stars than usual, peak 274 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 25, 2025 to Aug 26, 2025: about 285 more stars than usual, peak 302 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 8, 2025 to Sep 9, 2025: about 386 more stars than usual, peak 366 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 15, 2025 to Sep 17, 2025: about 261 more stars than usual, peak 218 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 9, 2025 to Dec 12, 2025: about 719 more stars than usual, peak 357 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 27, 2025 to Dec 28, 2025: about 95 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Feb 22, 2026 to Feb 23, 2026: about 143 more stars than usual, peak 119 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 1, 2026 to Aug 13, 2026: about 3.3k more stars than usual, peak 793 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 15 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Unexplained bursts: stars arrived with no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
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