GitHub reports that by September 2026 more than 40% of pull requests started with an agent's first draft, up from 17% in March. That is 110 million in September alone, about six times March's volume.
In the News: October 28, 2026 (Evening)
GitHub says over 40% of pull requests now start with an agent's draft; Snowflake's monorepo benchmark shows task wording moved one pass rate by 26 points.
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Snowflake: the task description moved pass rates more than the harness did
Snowflake built a 65-task benchmark from its own merged pull requests, graded by the tests that shipped with each change and run on its own Bazel build farm. With opus-5, four harnesses passed 84.1% to 85.1% of trials, a spread the…
github/lever
A Copilot plugin of skills for setting up feedback loops. /lever loop returns a "Loop Card" listing the metric, how to measure it, how noisy it is and what counts as a win, and an autonomy setting runs from L0, where the agent only proposes, to L5, where it lands, releases and watches. The README calls the project early and reports no measurements; the repository had 52 stars when read.
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