Agentic Very Much! Adoption of Coding Agent in New GitHub Projects
For researchers and practitioners tracking AI tool adoption in software development, this provides updated evidence of accelerating usage.
This study analyzes coding agent adoption in new GitHub projects created after a previous study, finding adoption more than twice as high and significantly more intensive, with a higher proportion of AI-assisted commits.
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.