... and 18,000 agent posts explain why
... and 18,000 agent posts explain why
Sep 7, 2026
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Good morning. It's Monday, September 7th.
Three days after shipping the model it called the AGI era, OpenAI published two things on the same Sunday: a tally of how much of its own research is now done by agents, and an essay from its chief scientist arguing that nobody should be scaling at full speed. Read them together and the second one explains the first.
OpenAI's chief scientist called for an industry slowdown the same day the company reported 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday.
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