Evidence item

OpenAI reported 3.1 equivalent eight-hour agent-workdays per human researcher workday by mid-August 2026, alongside continued human oversight. MEASUREMENT

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Source: Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:d864c116b858912a26aaebc0f0f2e2bb7653a7756c0ccac1263f3b797fdf8a0a

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As of mid-August 2026, agents collectively ran the equivalent of 3.1 eight-hour agent-workdays for every human researcher workday. Researchers were using coding agents daily, contributing code faster, running more experiments, and delegating increasingly complex tasks, while human researchers still set priorities, evaluated results, and steered agents.

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