The state of the tech industry in 2026
The Pragmatic Engineer
The keynote speaker at LDX3 described how AI agents are reshaping software development practices and platform activity, based on visits to OpenAI and Anthropic and data from GitHub, Factory AI, and Linear. GitHub reported a ninefold increase in agent-authored pull requests over eight months. As a result, engineers increasingly rely on multiple parallel agents and non-IDE agentic workflows, while companies build internal agent harnesses and agent-generated issues and PRs begin to outnumber human ones.
Why it matters
In 2026, the speed of change in tech “has never been this large-scale or fast,” and “practically nobody writes code by hand anymore.” The issue argues that assumptions about code output have broken, code reviews have become theatrical, and quality and reliability are down.
