Tomtunguz iconTomtunguzSep 8, 2026

Is the 3x AI Productivity Gain just a Computer that Never Sleeps?

OpenAI disclosed that its researchers now supervise 3.14 agent-workdays for every 8-hour human workday. Rather than making programmers three times smarter, software development is turning into a 24-hour factory where inference behaves like heavy tooling capex running multiple shifts.

Is the 3x AI Productivity Gain just a Computer that Never Sleeps?

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OpenAI disclosed that its researchers now supervise 3.14 agent-workdays for every 8-hour human workday.

Rather than making programmers three times smarter, software development is turning into a 24-hour factory where inference behaves like heavy tooling capex running multiple shifts.

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OpenAI disclosed that its researchers now supervise 3.14 agent-workdays for every 8-hour human workday. Rather than making programmers three times smarter, software development is turning into a 24-hour factory where inference behaves like heavy tooling capex running multiple shifts.

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