Field Note 00130-second takeaway
1 agent hour ≈ 43.3 human hours
Keep the agent’s human-hour estimate; convert it with your own trace coefficient (mine is 43.3×) to get agent labor, then schedule wall-clock, not a universal “speed of agents.”
Local GradientField note 001July 2026
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Estimating agent work in agent time.
Take the human-hour estimate a coding agent already gives you, then translate it into agent labor and wall-clock time using evidence from completed traces.
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