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What do we mean by ‘long-horizon’ work?

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A LessWrong post argues that the benchmarks frontier labs cite for long-horizon capability mostly measure tasks with many steps or long context, verifiable end states and little external input, and that real-world long-horizon work differs.

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“TL;DR - The benchmarks frontier labs cite for long-horizon capability mostly measure capability on tasks involving many steps or lots of context, verifiable end states, and little external input.”
LessWrong, 28 Oct 2026, 15:47.

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