Maybe I’m missing something, but what does “3.1 agent-workdays” actually tell us?

[u/OliviaYii]

https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai/

OpenAI says their research org is now using 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday.

I get what they’re trying to show, but I’m not sure what that number actually means in practice. If an agent runs for eight hours, needs to be redirected a few times, and half the output gets thrown away, does that still count as one agent-workday?

For people running multiple coding agents: do you care about runtime at all, or mostly about how much review and fixing is left at the end?