Frontier models lack time awareness, failing to estimate task duration
maksym_andr · x · 2026-08-18
Frontier models have almost no sense of time, unable to estimate how long a task will take or how long they've been working, and are poor at evaluating their own work. A new blog post presents clean experiments on this across tasks like ProgramBench, PaperBench, and DeepSWE.
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