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Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents

Maliha Noushin Raida and Daqing Hou at Rochester Institute of Technology analyzed 25,264 agentic pull requests and found that small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents on GitHub, with a single developer often reviewing the entire output alone.

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The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to read it. On GitHub that somebody is usually one developer sitting alone with the diff, and the rest of the project never sees the code. Maliha Noushin Raida and Daqing Hou at Rochester Institute of Technology sorted 25,264 agentic pull requests by who reviewed … More

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