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Teams tripled their pull requests.

Linear itself says it has no idea if any of that helped.

“AI now writes just under half of all Linear issues, teams that connected a coding agent tripled their weekly pull requests, and total product development time increased anyway.”

AIToolsRecap (aggregator), summarizing Linear's 'AI usage patterns in software teams' data report, 21 August 2026

Recorded 24 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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8 receipts: 3 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 4 add context. 7 figures on the record, 3 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Supports the claimlinear.app ↗

    Teams now use AI to write just under half of everything created in Linear

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  2. 2Supports the claimlinear.app ↗

    Teams that connected a coding agent roughly tripled their weekly pull requests over two years, from 21 to 65

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  3. 3Contextlinear.app ↗

    Between June 2025 and June 2026, time spent creating, triaging, and commenting rose in nearly every function

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  4. 4Contradicts the claimlinear.app ↗

    We have no way of knowing whether this increased output led to positive business outcomes

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  5. 5Supports the claimaitoolsrecap.com ↗

    Total product development time increased anyway.

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  6. 6Contextweb.archive.org ↗

    AI prs merge at just 32.7%, which is less than half of that rate.

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  7. 7Contextfaros.ai ↗

    Volume is up, quality is down, and the gap between the two is widening as adoption deepens.

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  8. 8Contextweb.archive.org ↗

    manual PRS merge at about 80, 84 point half percent, so about 84% of all the unassisted prs that are open get merged

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