GitHub Universe 2026: 220M merged PRs/month and Actions jobs up ~6× since agents arrived
kimmonismus · x · 2026-10-29
Onstage charts at GitHub Universe 2026 show explosive growth since agentic AI: Actions jobs jumped from 8.03B (2024) to 13.95B (2025) to 45.44B (2026), monthly merged PRs hit 220M, monthly commits reached 7.38B, and new repos per month climbed to 30.3M — all with steep inflections after agents arrived.
The author is live-updating the keynote news in a thread.
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