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GitHub Octoverse 2026: merged PRs triple to 220M/month as agentic coding scales

simonwillison.net · 2026-10-29

GitHub's annual Octoverse report shows merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million per month, with commits more than tripling to 7.38 billion per month. The data quantifies the scale of agentic engineering adoption on the platform.

“In 2026, merged pull requests tripled in less than a year to 220 million per month.”

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