{"slug": "github-octoverse-2026-ai-agents-start-40-of-pull-requests", "title": "GitHub Octoverse 2026: AI Agents Start 40% of Pull Requests", "summary": "AI agents drafted more than 40% of all pull requests on GitHub in September 2026 — 110 million in one month — up from 17% six months earlier, according to GitHub's Octoverse 2026 report released Tuesday. GitHub counted 34.3 billion commits in the 12 months ending September 2026, and the report states agent-written code exposes credentials at double the rate human developers do, shifting the bottleneck from writing code to reviewing it.", "body_md": "GitHub’s Octoverse 2026 report landed Tuesday with a number that rewrites the job description: AI agents drafted more than 40% of all pull requests on GitHub in September — 110 million in one month. Six months ago that figure was 17%. The bottleneck is no longer writing code. It is reviewing it. And the agent-written code flooding review queues carries a compounding problem: it exposes credentials at double the rate human developers do. June 2026 Was the Inflection Point The numbers are remarkable in scale. GitHub counted 34.3 billion commits in the 12 months ending September 2026 — three times […]\n\nThe post", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-octoverse-2026-ai-agents-start-40-of-pull-requests", "canonical_source": "https://byteiota.com/github-octoverse-2026-agents-security/", "published_at": "2026-10-30 11:14:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-30 12:20:46.906317+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["GitHub", "GitHub Octoverse 2026"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-octoverse-2026-ai-agents-start-40-of-pull-requests", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-octoverse-2026-ai-agents-start-40-of-pull-requests.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-octoverse-2026-ai-agents-start-40-of-pull-requests.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/github-octoverse-2026-ai-agents-start-40-of-pull-requests.jsonld"}}