Agent PR merge rate of 32.7% exposes AI coding trust gap

Developer Gerard Sans argues that sampling does not equal intelligence, citing data showing AI agent PRs have only a 32.7% 30-day merge rate versus 84.4% for humans, shifting the bottleneck from writing code to trusting it.

2026-11-09 ~ 2026-11-09 · 2 related posts

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