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GitHub Octoverse 2026
The report provides large-scale empirical evidence of how AI coding agents are dramatically accelerating software development output and changing repository creation patterns.
Reported by Simon Willison ·
What happened
GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report reveals a massive surge in platform activity driven by agentic engineering, with monthly merged pull requests tripling to 220 million and monthly commits exceeding 7.38 billion. The report also used language and embedding models to classify developer locations and categorize public repositories by industry and interoperability focus.
Who it’s about
- GitHub
- Simon Willison
- Jay Parikh
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Simon Willison
GitHub Octoverse 2026
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