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A bar chart showing agent-started pull requests rising from 17% to 40%, illustrating the Octoverse 2026 trend.

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Agents Start 40% of Pull Requests: What Students Should Learn Now

GitHub's Octoverse 2026 report shows agents now start over 40% of pull requests, up from 17% in March. For students, this doesn't mean jobs are gone; it means the skills that pay are reviewing and directing agent-generated code, not just writing it.

1 November 2026Arnab Biswas

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