OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark (OpenAI)

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OpenAI found major flaws in SWE-Bench Pro, undermining confidence in a coding benchmark used to evaluate agentic software models.

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<a href="https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260708/i41.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260708/p41#a260708p41" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations">OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Through a detailed audit, we find widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro and estimate that ~30% of the tasks are broken.</p>