📡 Radar — 7 Sep 2026

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📡 7 Sep 2026

🛠️ AI Development

• News

  Inside OpenAI: 3.1 agent-workdays of coding effort per human workday

  OpenAI's own numbers on agent-assisted engineering: by mid-August its research org ran 3.1 agent-workdays of coding effort per human workday, median researcher spending $600+/day on inference.

• Article

  CROCODIL: teaching models to make minimal edits to each other's code

  When one coding model edits another's code it over-edits and drifts on style. CROCODIL post-trains with a similarity reward (big-diff penalty) plus a build/test reward, for minimal correct edits.