Almost half the tasks in a large project tracker are now written by software rather than by a person
Linear, the issue tracker used by a large slice of the software industry, opened its own numbers this week — a public dashboard drawn from about 47,900 paying workspaces and covering June 2024 to August 2026. The headline figure is that agents now create roughly as many issues per week as humans and integrations combined: around 2.44 million against 2.48 million, a line that has almost converged. The effect on output is uneven in a way worth noticing. Teams that have adopted coding agents went from about 21 pull requests a week to 65; teams that have not went from 8 to 10. Adoption also stopped being an engineering matter: the share of product managers active on AI features rose from 12 to 34 percent in the first half of 2026, go-to-market staff from 5 to 18 percent, and the proportion of product managers who now attach actual code changes to their work went from 3 to 10 percent, designers from 1 to 8. These are Linear's own figures about its own product, self-published and not audited by anyone outside the company.
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