Why Developers Hit a Wall at 4 AI Agents

About this episode

Nick Arcolano discusses the complexities of AI-generated pull requests and developer productivity.

Engineering teams are shipping twice as many pull requests with AI — but merge rates on AI-generated PRs have dropped from 80% to 60%. Nick Arcolano, Head of AI & Research at Jellyfish, sits on one of the most comprehensive datasets in the industry: 250,000 developers, 40 million data points, monthly benchmarks on real agentic coding adoption across enterprise companies. What he's seeing in that data is both more promising and more complicated than the headlines suggest. What ...

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Host: Tessl

Guest: Nick Arcolano

Topics covered

• AI in software development
• pull requests
• developer productivity
• AI agents
• data analysis

Keywords

• AI agents
• pull requests
• developer productivity
• Jellyfish
• data analysis

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Organizations: Jellyfish

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