GitHub Octoverse: 40%+ of PRs now started by agents, 17.9B pushes in a year
ggerganov · x · 2026-11-05
GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report (shared by llama.cpp author Georg Ggerganov) shows:
- Developers pushed code 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months — more than 2024 and 2025 combined.
- Activity bent sharply upward mid-year, exactly as agents shifted from experiments to everyday collaborators.
- New repos with an agent config file averaged 8x more commits than those without.
- As of September, over 40% of pull requests are started with an agent.
- Case studies include a Nepali disaster-alert relay built on GitHub Pages/Actions and software for NASA JPL spacecraft, with AI-driven building spanning healthcare to agriculture.
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