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WHAT ARE POPULAR AI CODING BENCHMARKS ACTUALLY MEASURING?
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Popular coding benchmarks measure something narrower than what their names suggest. Claude scoring 80% on SWE-bench doesn't translate to it one-shotting 80% of the tasks thrown at it. This post looks at SWE-bench Verified, SWE-bench Pro, Aider Polyglot, LiveCodeBench, and other benchmarks to see what they are actually measuring. Designing a good benchmark is highly labor-intensive. Without human review and annotations, it's nearly impossible to make a good benchmark.