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Agents tripled commits, but releases only rose 30%: 6 places the extra code piles up before it ships in 2026

Once autonomous coding agents are added, the cumulative effect on commits is 240%. Releases rose only 30%. Both numbers come from an NBER working paper that tracked more than 500,000 GitHub developers. The gap between them is the most useful thing I've read about coding agents in a while, because t…

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  1. 2026-11-13 17:41 · DEV Community — AI
    Agents tripled commits, but releases only rose 30%: 6 places the extra code piles up before it ships in 2026

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