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Measuring how much faster work is now than three years ago is difficult because different baseline comparisons ask different questions.
Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026
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“are you comparing to a speed up of like three years ago versus like is the is the question more like given what we were doing three years ago how much faster are we able to do now versus given what we're doing now how much how much slower would it have been three years ago it's actually two very different questions so anyways like it's it's really hard to measure i do feel confident in saying that things are going faster now than they were”37:35Report a misattribution
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