The graph
This is one engineer's output. AI agents lifted it steadily from October 2025 through February 2026 — then in April 2026 we put CodePress into our own company and it went vertical, another 2-3x on top. The software factory is that workflow, productized.
80 → 400
PRs per month, one engineer
~400k
lines per month per engineer
275
agent turns before ready to merge
Q5 engineering output
Normal company cadence → agent-driven cadence
vertical after CodePress
The input
1
A backlog item, a bug, a Sentry alert, a failing CI run.
The loop
2
Build, run the app, QA it, review it, repair it — for days if needed.
The gate
3
An independent judge decides whether it is actually ready to merge.
The output
4
A reviewed pull request in GitHub, not a mystery diff.
This is what AI-native looks like in production, not a forecast.