{"slug": "ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it", "title": "AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it", "summary": "A new study finds that AI coding assistants Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, systematically overestimating task durations by up to ten times and rating their own work about 20 percentage points too high, creating oversight problems for long autonomous tasks.", "body_md": "AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, according to a new study. Both systematically overestimate how long tasks will take. Codex is off by as much as ten times the actual duration. They also rate their own work about 20 percentage points too high. For long, autonomous tasks, that creates a real problem with oversight.\n\nThe article [AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it](https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it/", "published_at": "2026-08-30 10:41:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-30 10:52:47.071242+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Claude Code", "Codex", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-have-no-sense-of-time-and-are-not-aware-of-it.jsonld"}}