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Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT-2 could only do software engineering tasks t
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AI & Machine LearningTech Industry & Business2026
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| Apr 15, 2026 | Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) by louiereederson | 306 | 137 |
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Linked from 5 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Apr 2026 to Jul 2026.
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- leoc · Jul 11, 2026
- leoc · Jul 11, 2026
- therobots927 · Jul 8, 2026
- leoc · May 15, 2026
- louiereederson · Apr 17, 2026
