Satya Nadella says AI agents now open over 40% of GitHub pull requests

GitHub's Octoverse 2026 data shows agent-driven pull requests hit 110 million in September as autonomous coding goes mainstream Software has a new most prolific contributor, and it doesn’t take lunch breaks. AI agents opened more than 40% of all pull requests on GitHub in September, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed. That works out to 110 million pull requests in a single month. It is about six times the figure from March, which means the bots didn’t just show up. They took over a meaningful chunk of the workflow in roughly half a year.

Source: Crypto Briefing