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OpenAI marks 'RSI day,' reports coding-agent spend per researcher neared $600/day
OpenAI published details of internal recursive-self-improvement efforts and a chart showing median daily AI spend per researcher climbing to roughly $600 by late August 2026. Agentic coding adoption inside a frontier lab is evidence on AI code-writing claims.
“Like pretty much everyone else 2026 has been the year that agentic engineering really took off at OpenAI, best illustrated by this chart:”
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