Uh, this is just one example from METR, the machine evaluation center, and it sh
Uh, this is just one example from METR, the machine evaluation center, and it shows that models for the first time started completing tasks that would take engineers over 16 hours to do.
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Source
- youtube ZpK5PWX2YRM — Should AI Engineers Still Read Code in 2026? The Z/L Continuum — Alex Volkov, ThursdAI