Speed optimizations are both the best and worst agent benchmarks, researcher argues
ducha_aiki · x · 2026-10-06
duchaaiki argues that speed-optimization tasks make the best and worst benchmarks for agents: they're well-defined and easy to climb leaderboards with, but you can't leverage agent swarms since the timings become unreliable.
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