Automation & Agents
How agents are transforming work
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A new Economic Research paper measuring Codex’s economic potential at the frontier. Agentic AI changes the unit of knowledge work from single interactions to delegated, long-horizon tasks. Chatbot interactions are often short and self-contained. Agents can operate independently for minutes or hours while orchestrating tool calls, interacting with environments, and iterating towards solutions. As a result, agents are quickly becoming the most powerful AI tool for work. Over the last year, we witnessed this transformation first-hand at OpenAI. For the first few months after Codex was released to the public,…




