Agent-generated pull requests have exploded in size with no signs of slowing down

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• A maintainer no longer needs to read every pull request; agents can sort the chaff and leave only the decisions worth a human. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026similar wording
• The per-user software business becomes a per-agent business, and it grows faster than the number of users. SNSatya Nadella12 Nov 2025similar wording
• A swarm of agents with the right loop and the right metric can already out-produce a team of a hundred engineers. AWAlexandr Wang29 Jul 2026similar wording
• The very large productivity gains from agents require working with them directly; putting another human in between is too slow to preserve the gain. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026similar wording
• AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak. NFNicole Forsgren22 Mar 2026similar wording

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