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11 Hours or 270? The Benchmark That Grades AI Agents in Workdays — and the Cheat That Broke It

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Most AI benchmarks answer one question: did the model pass the test? The nonprofit METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research) asks a better one: give a frontier agent a real task, and ask how long that same task takes a skilled human. The longest task the agent finishes on its own, half the time,…

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    11 Hours or 270? The Benchmark That Grades AI Agents in Workdays — and the Cheat That Broke It

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