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CircleCI's 2026 figures show feature branches outrunning merges to main by 24%
The company's own report puts feature-branch activity up 15% last year and throughput on main down almost 7%. Its stronger argument is about trust, since a coding agent controls the environment where it runs the tests that grade it.
Publishers:circleci.com
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives85
- Confidence60