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AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it
TL;DRAI assistants can't accurately estimate how long coding tasks take.
Why it matters: Unreliable time estimates from AI agents undermine project planning and deadline predictions in production environments.
AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, according to a new study. Both systematically overestimate how long tasks will take. Codex is off by as much as ten times the actual duration. They also rate their own work about 20 percentage points too…
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