Jesus Rodriguez asks who sets the agenda as AI agents help build AI

Jesus Rodriguez examines OpenAI's claim that its research organization now logs 3.1 agent-workdays for every eight-hour day of human labor, and that it reached an automated research intern milestone.

He argues the milestone's definition, well-defined tasks under human direction, leaves research priorities and scaling decisions with people. He also notes that median researcher inference costs exceed 600 dollars a day at API prices.