GitHub Octoverse 2026: 40%+ PRs start with agents, 17.9B pushes in a year
rseroter · x · 2026-11-03
GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report shows record developer activity and agents going mainstream: over 40% of pull requests were started with an agent as of September (up from 17% in March); developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in 12 months, more than 2024 and 2025 combined; new repos with agent config files averaged 8x more commits; 61% of Copilot users run multiple models; and public repos in mining, construction, health care and agriculture have grown severalfold since 2022.
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