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Model Evaluation & Threat Research

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Model Evaluation & Threat Research

Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR) studies frontier AI capabilities and their real-world effects. Its task-completion horizon work models agent success against human expert task duration, while its developer-productivity randomized trial found that early-2025 AI tools increased completion time by 19% for experienced maintainers working in familiar mature repositories. [source: metr-task-completion-time-horizons-2026]^[raw/papers/metr-developer-productivity-rct-2025.md]

Evidence — verified primary sources
metr-task-completion-time-horizons-2026 https://metr.org/time-horizons/
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