AI can give you more working hours than there are hours in your day.
That does not mean it gives you more finished work.
On September 6, 2026, OpenAI published a detailed look at how coding agents are changing work inside its research organization. One number will get most of the attention: by mid-August, the organization was using 3.1 agent-workdays of runtime for every human workday.
That sounds like somebody installed an extra Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday inside Monday.
OpenAI also reported that researchers were contributing code faster and running more experiments. Agent use had expanded beyond writing research and infrastructure code into technical help and monitoring runs. Some internal support office hours saw less demand because agents were handling troubleshooting work.
