Dev Interrupted
Dev Interrupted
LinearB
Why AI-assisted PRs merge at half the rate of human code | LinearB’s 2026 Benchmarks
39 minutes Posted Mar 24, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Over 88% of developers use AI regularly, but AI-assisted pull requests merge at less than half the rate of human-authored code. In this episode, Dan Lines and Ben Lloyd Pearson break down the findings from LinearB's 2026 Engineering Benchmarks Report to reveal how AI is fundamentally reshaping software delivery. They explore the stark behavioral differences between unassisted, AI-assisted, and fully agentic pull requests, highlighting how AI accelerates code generation but exposes massive bot...