OpenAI claims 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, but what does that metric mean?

OliviaYii · reddit · 2026-09-10

OpenAI says its research org now gets 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday. The poster questions what the metric actually means: does an agent that runs eight hours, needs repeated redirection, and produces half-discarded output still count? They ask multi-agent developers whether runtime matters or only the leftover review-and-fix work.

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