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2026-10-09
arxiv.org
ai-agents
On the Clock: Towards Punctual and Productive Time-Budgeted AI Agents
A new arXiv paper (2610.10833v1) finds that small LLM agents fail to use explicit wall-clock time budgets productively even when they learn to respect them. Testing Qwen3.6-27B on five MLE-Bench Lite …