Use casesSeptember 25, 2026Impact
Coding agents now author most pull requests at surveyed tech firms
A survey of engineering organisations found that a majority of merged pull requests now originate from coding agents, with humans reviewing and steering.
Why it matters
Software engineering is the first profession where agentic AI has become the default workflow, a preview of what comes next for other knowledge work.
The details
- Review capacity, not code generation, is now the bottleneck for many teams.
- Firms report the biggest gains on tests, migrations and well-specified tickets.
Models in this story
Provenance: Industry survey; self-reported data. Illustrative placeholder story.