Octoverse 2026: AI Agents Now Write the First Draft of 40%+ of GitHub PRs
https://rohantechofficial.com/tech-news/github-octoverse-2026-ai-agent-pull-requests/ GitHub's Octoverse 2026, published October 28 at Universe, puts a number on what every developer has felt: agents are now a major source of code. By September 2026, more than 40% of pull requests started with a coding agent's first draft — up from 17% in March. That's 110 million agent-started PRs in a single month, about 6x March's volume. Definitions first: GitHub counts a PR as "agent-started" when its firs…