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Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

Why it matters

At least 59.4% of the audited problems had flawed tests; the vendor acknowledges that the benchmark harness's signal is contaminated

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialopenai.comhttps://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/

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