Essays on measuring AI-assisted engineering and on the cost of supervising it, originally published at charlessieg.com and republished here because they are the argument the leverage engagement rests on.
Leverage is a small input controlling a large output. For engineering with AI agents, it is senior-engineer hours divided by agent minutes.
Originally at charlessieg.com
The first leverage article drew hostile mail. This one answers it: what the estimates mean, why the METR study does not apply, the supervisory factor.
Originally at charlessieg.com
Supervising AI agents means hundreds of accept-or-reject decisions a day, and decision quality falls by afternoon. What the science says, and what compensates.
Originally at charlessieg.com
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