--- title: Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as... description: GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report shows developers pushing code 17.9 billion times this year, more than 2024 and 2025 combined, with commits reaching 34.3... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents-ilowokytu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents | daily.dev og:description: GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report shows developers pushing code 17.9 billion times this year, more than 2024 and 2025 combined, with commits reaching 34.3... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents-ilowokytu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ILowOKytU.png og:image:alt: Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents **[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 23 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report shows developers pushing code 17.9 billion times this year, more than 2024 and 2025 combined, with commits reaching 34.3 billion. More than 40% of pull requests now start with an AI agent's first draft, up from 17% in March. Among newly created repos, those with an agent configuration file logged 8 times as many commits as those without. Public open-source contributions hit 2.5 billion, over double last year's total. TypeScript remains the top language on GitHub by contributors, ahead of Python and JavaScript, and 61% of GitHub Copilot users who selected a model themselves now use more than one model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of GitHub pull requests are started by an AI agent in 2026? More than 40% of pull requests on GitHub started with an agent's first draft by September 2026, up sharply from 17% in March 2026. That amounts to about 110 million agent-started pull requests in September alone, roughly six times March's volume. Agent-started pull requests also more often touch multiple files, about 87% versus 79% for non-agent pull requests. _Developers deciding how much to automate their PR workflow can follow agent adoption trends like these on daily.dev._ ### Which programming language is most used on GitHub in 2026? TypeScript is the most used language on GitHub by contributors, ahead of Python in second place and JavaScript in third. From September 2025 to September 2026, TypeScript added 3.62 million monthly contributors, Python added 3.23 million, and JavaScript added 1.82 million. Rust grew fastest by percentage, doubling over the past year among top languages. _Anyone choosing a primary language for a new project can track shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### How many models do GitHub Copilot users switch between when coding? 61% of GitHub Copilot users who manually select a model used more than one model across their sessions in September 2026, up from 50% four months earlier. Developers on paid plans used 29 distinct models in May and 47 in September, with no single model carrying more than 25% of requests that month. _Teams weighing which AI models to standardize on can follow usage patterns like these on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@tangweikun** · 0 upvotes > The 40% agent-first-draft PR number gets the headlines, but the sharper signal is the 8x commit gap on new repos that ship an agent config file. Agents are expanding how much code moves, not just filling boilerplate. Review bandwidth is the real bottleneck now, not draft generation. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Developer innovation at the center at GitHub Universe 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/developer-innovation-at-the-center-at-github-universe-2025-l0mizcfsq) · Microsoft Azure · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [What 986 million code pushes say about the developer workflow in 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/what-986-million-code-pushes-say-about-the-developer-workflow-in-2025-4bpyjwlpr) · GitHub Blog · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Self-Host Weekly \(31 October 2025\)](https://daily.dev/posts/self-host-weekly-31-october-2025--qdltswbhe) · selfh.st · 15 upvotes · 0 comments - [How GitHub plans to win developers back](https://daily.dev/posts/how-github-plans-to-win-developers-back-9hvijs2gi) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Trends \#12:](https://daily.dev/posts/trends-12--wx6ta7zu7) · Tech World With Milan · 15 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents-ilowokytu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents-ilowokytu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents-ilowokytu"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T16:08:18.366Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T16:22:14.868Z","description":"GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report shows developers pushing code 17.9 billion times this year, more than 2024 and 2025 combined, with commits reaching 34.3...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/cae26d75bcf24894c17cf0cd1558f426?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/cae26d75bcf24894c17cf0cd1558f426?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"GitHub Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"GitHub Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/106cf162b88840808484d4b5429b59b1","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents-ilowokytu","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"open-source,ai-agents,github,typescript","timeRequired":"PT23M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"GitHub Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents-ilowokytu","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"The 40% agent-first-draft PR number gets the headlines, but the sharper signal is the 8x commit gap on new repos that ship an agent config file. 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