Mixed
I saw a similar number for myself, around 30% more PRs in the last 6 months, compared to the 6 months before that
frostlynx on Hacker News
around 30% more PRs in the last 6 months
In the thread “A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI”, replying to this comment
Helped: Increased volume of PRs and closed issues, including cleanup and refactoring.
Got in the way: Many PRs were low-priority tasks that would not have been done otherwise.
… My guess is they used # of PRs as a measure as it’s easy to obtain, while other measures are hard, may be due to other factors, etc. FWIW I saw a similar number for myself, around 30% more PRs in the last 6 months, compared to the 6 months before that (I picked up agentic coding around at the start of the year). And a similar increase for closed issues. …