AI World reports that pull requests with AI agents such as Claude Code or Codex listed as co-authors rose from 2% to 10% across one million critical open-source repositories between October 2025 and May 2026, while maintainers face new review pressure from agent-written code, malicious attacks, and invalid bug reports.
AI agents are increasingly writing open source software code
AI World reports that pull requests with AI agents such as Claude Code or Codex listed as co-authors rose from 2% to 10% across one million critical open-source repositories between October 2025 and May 2026, while maintainers face new review pressure from agent-written code, malicious attacks, and invalid bug reports.
Source: Aiworld