Contributor-days estimated at over 24 hours of unassisted work rose from 2% to 8% in a year inside the Codex repo. It is an upper-bound signal of AI uplift among the engineers building a coding AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition →.
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LLM — A large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
