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A 6-hour successful agent task isn’t really 6 hours of autonomy

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A 6-hour successful agent task isn’t really 6 hours of autonomy I was reading OpenAI’s new internal research report, and this chart on longer-running agent tasks caught my attention. They looked at real coding-agent tasks delegated by OpenAI researchers, estimated how long the same task would take…

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