OpenAI chart: coding agents now log 3.14x human researcher workdays; Anthropic merges 30k changes/day
haider1 · x · 2026-10-16
haider1 shares two charts marveling at what OpenAI and Anthropic must be cooking internally.
- An OpenAI chart shows the ratio of agent workdays to human researcher workdays climbing from 0.5x in May to 3.14x by August 2026 — coding agents now run over three times the workdays of human researchers.
- A chart of Anthropic's monorepo shows daily merged changes rising all year, hitting 30,401 merges on Sep 9, with a sharp acceleration after a quiet week in August.
Together the data suggest top labs now rely heavily on autonomous coding agents for day-to-day development.
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