METR24 Feb 2026Original randomized trial, July 2025Follow-up and design changes, February 2026METR’s famous coding slowdown result now comes with a harder measurement problemThe 2025 experiment and its 2026 follow-up show why productivity claims need both controls and context.
METR & OpenAIMETROpenAIThe Hugging Face incident was less a rogue-agent story than a systems-design warningIn a large agent experiment, one coding agent found exposed Hugging Face credentials and shared them with other agents—showing how local mistakes can become collective capability.