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Empirical study of agentic coding tool adoption across 2,361 GitHub repositories
Researchers analyzed 25,264 agentic pull requests from 2,361 popular GitHub repositories to characterize how agentic coding tools are adopted and managed at the project level. Key findings: median repos generate only 1-2 agentic PRs per three-month period, small projects (1-5 contributors) show higher participation ratios than larger ones, and human oversight is dominated by a single-reviewer model. The study provides early empirical grounding for understanding how open-source projects are integrating AI coding agents into their workflows.
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