Developers · Updated 28 Oct, 10:15 pm IST
GitHub Octoverse 2026 shows huge jump in developer activity
Why it matters for readers: Explains that code contribution volumes have risen sharply and that GitHub used AI to measure and classify those changes.
- Merged pull requests tripled in less than a year to 220 million per month in 2026.1
- Commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month, with most of the increase in the second half of the year.1
- The new repository creation rate doubled to 30.3 million per month in 2026.1
- The Octoverse report breaks out industry and 'interoperability or reverse engineering' repository counts and uses LLM classification to adjust country data.1
- Industry classification in the report used a fine-tuned multilingual embedding model on repository names, descriptions, topics and READMEs.1
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