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Readiness verdict

OpenAI SWE-bench Verified

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-10-24
Revision
2
Method
v1.4.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Emerging

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
72% · stale
Computed at
2026-10-24T19:23:31.063993+00:00
Claimed
55

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
35

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
25

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+30

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Agent-assisted assessment · independently reviewed · 2026-10-24

Use SWE-bench Verified as a supplementary historical benchmark, with independent patch review.

Why
It remains executable, but contamination, invalid tasks and defects missed by passing tests limit its value for measuring frontier coding progress.
Next
Pair results with fresh tasks, controlled training-data exposure and semantic correctness checks; assess replacement benchmarks independently.

Constraints

Blockers

  • Training contamination can inflate scores.
  • Passing tests can miss incorrect patches.
  • Some tasks reject functionally valid solutions.
  • Small edits in familiar Python repositories limit generalization.
  • Scaffolding and infrastructure exclusions complicate comparisons.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
10
Tier 1
5
Tier 2
4
Tier 3
1
Supports
2
Contradicts
6
Context
2
Latest observed
2026-09-22

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Revision 2

  1. 2026-07-27 Reading moved from emerging to emerging.
  2. 2026-10-01 Reading moved from emerging to emerging.

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