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GitHub Octoverse 2026: What 7.38 Billion Monthly Commits Reveal About Agent-Generated Code at Scale

GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report shows commits jumped from roughly 2 billion to 7.38 billion per month. Merged pull requests tripled to 220 million per month. New repositories doubled to 30.3 million per month. Most of this growth happened in the second half of 2026, and GitHub attributes it to devel…

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  1. 2026-10-31 10:07 · DEV Community — AI
    GitHub Octoverse 2026: What 7.38 Billion Monthly Commits Reveal About Agent-Generated Code at Scale

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