Agentic Coding in the Wild
87% of LLM calls are agent-initiated; model calls and tool calls run at a near 1:1 ratio (760.5M LLM calls vs 774.7M tool calls).
87%LLM calls initiated by the agent rather than the user
August 2026
A A Canaries in the Gold Mine
By 2024 US public firms employ more than 300,000 AI-skilled workers, 2.1% of their US workforce, with AI shares rising in every industry.
7.5 ppextra revenue TFP growth over 2018-2024 per one-SD increase in AI worker share growth
A Beyond Final Scores long-horizon AI RnD
Claude Opus 4.7 ranks first on average (0.739) and best-of-three (0.790); GPT-5.5, GLM-5.2 and Gemini-3.1-Pro form a second tier within 0.029 of each other on average.
3 of 252best-seed solutions judged methodologically novel