GitHub Octoverse 2026: AI Agents Now Start Over 40% of Pull Requests as Surging Load Strains Infrastructure

GitHub Octoverse 2026: AI Agents Now Start Over 40% of Pull Requests as Surging Load Strains Infrastructure

Generative AI in software development is moving beyond helping developers type code toward handing the work itself to AI agents. Instead of writing code line by line, developers now describe what they want fixed or achieved and delegate changes spanning an entire repository to an agent. This shift is changing not only how software is…