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The trends behind my LinkedIn carousels. Each number was checked against its source, and every source is one click away.
4 in 10 GitHub pull requests now start with an AI agent
More than 40% of pull requests on GitHub in September started with an AI agent’s first draft.
1 source →An AI lab’s $104B loss that is really $1.3B
Anthropic’s updated IPO filing shows a $104.0B net loss for the nine months to September.
2 sources →Pakistani freelancers earned a record $1.76B. That’s about $53 a month each.
Pakistani freelancers earned a record $1.76 billion in FY2025-26, up 78% in a year.
5 sources →Only 18% of developers go to the office every day
Only 18% of developers go to an office every day.
3 sources →AI made code faster. Review is now the bottleneck.
Median time in code review went up 441% between each organization’s lowest and highest AI-adoption periods.
4 sources →Junior developers are the canary
Employment of 22 to 25 year olds in highly AI-exposed jobs is 19% below where it would have been.
3 sources →Google and Meta spent more on AI build-out than their business brought in
In Q3 2026, Alphabet spent $51.4B on capital investment. Its operations brought in $42.3B.
5 sources →AI agents tried real freelance jobs. 4 in 5 still fail.
AI agents were given real, paid freelance projects and judged by people.
4 sources →The price of AI thinking falls 13x a year
Reaching the same AI benchmark score gets about 13x cheaper every year.
2 sources →Saudi Arabia plans 3 GW of AI data centres. The whole country had 440 MW.
Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN plans 3 GW of AI data-centre capacity by 2030.
5 sources →AI skills pay 62% more. Read the fine print.
Jobs that need AI skills advertise 62% higher pay.
3 sources →The AI boom is now being paid for with debt
Alphabet’s long-term debt went from $46.5B to $125.1B in nine months.
4 sources →Your AI coding agent is the new supply-chain target
A malicious AGENTS.md file was found in a real customer’s Downloads folder.
4 sources →Developer job posts are back. Just not for everyone.
US software job postings are up 15% since February 2025, while all US postings fell 7%.
2 sources →How long can AI work alone? The ruler just ran out.
METR measures how long a task an AI agent can finish on its own, in the time it would take a skilled person.
4 sources →AI code got smarter. It did not get safer.
AI-generated code passes syntax checks almost 100% of the time. It passes security checks 56% of the time.
2 sources →73% use AI daily. Only 16% trust it with most of their work.
73% of developers use AI coding tools every day. Only 16% trust AI with most of their tasks, and even they keep it away from important decisions.
3 sources →88% use AI. 37% see profit. 6% are winning.
88% of organizations use AI. 37% see any profit impact from it. 6% get 5% or more of their profit from it.
3 sources →Remember "AI makes developers 19% slower"? Here’s the 2026 update.
"AI makes experienced developers 19% slower."
2 sources →4 in 10 remote MCP servers let anyone call their tools
40.55% of live remote MCP servers expose their tools without any authentication.
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