Research: Are LLM agents time-aware and can they estimate task duration?
xeophon · x · 2026-08-18
Researchers published a new blog post investigating whether LLM agents possess time awareness. The study examines if agents can predict the wall-clock time of tasks and estimate the duration they spend. Experiments were conducted across a range of tasks, including long-horizon benchmarks like ProgramBench, PaperBench, and DeepSWE.
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