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GitHub Octoverse 2026

Simon Willison

GitHub's Octoverse 2026 report, announced at GitHub Universe by EVP Jay Parikh, shows developers now merge 220M pull requests per month, make 7.38B commits per month, and create 30.3M new repositories per month, with growth attributed to developers building with AI agents.

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