Agentic Very Much! Adoption of Coding Agent in New GitHub Projects

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07448v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:51:25 GMT
• Title: Agentic Very Much! Adoption of Coding Agent in New GitHub Projects
• Abstract summary: We find that the adoption of coding agents is more than twice as high.<n>The proportion of AI-assisted commits is sensibly higher, despite strong signs that we do not detect all of it.
• Score: 6.395990525268647
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In previous work, we investigated the adoption of coding agents in GitHub projects, finding that it was very significant. This study follows this line of work, but analyses new projects, that were created after the previous study. In this new sample, we find that the adoption of coding agents is more than twice as high. We also find that the adoption is significantly more intensive, as the proportion of AI-assisted commits is sensibly higher, despite strong signs that we do not detect all of it.

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