79-95% cheating by source code look up, I sure hope these tools are not used in proprietary codebases attempting to reimplement anything GPL-like. Can’t wait to see the justification contortions of oh it’s fair use because my bot literally copy pasted the code, and the poor thing doesn’t know any better.

It feels like this benchmark will be easily gamed
But, but, but, AI coding is the future and devs who don't use AI are gonna get left behind!!!!! You're just a stupid Luddite whose job will be replaced anyways!!!!!!
This benchmark is presenting AI with a challenge that's greater than what human devs normally face. It's supposed to be really hard, it's not surprising that current models get 0%.
The point is that over time models will continue to improve and this benchmark will measure that improvement. A lot of current benchmarks have been saturated, once models are getting near 100% scores there's no point to them any more.
It’s incredible how we went from everyone laughing at the YNGMI crypto bros to the entire economy being built on top of YNGMI AI bros.
No it's not, and part of that is the current legislative laissez-faire in the US that put its regulatory bodies on a hiatus. Under normal circumstances, this stuff should have been under much more scrutiny and regulations. I'm not saying that the state should control what LLMs do or who's access to them, but they could very much tackle the deceptive marketing, environmental and societal impact, unsound financing, abnormal market consolidation, and mitigate the overall financial risk.
well duh. You can test this yourself and even ALLOW the agent to access the internet. if you asks it to build something let it pick it's own language. 9 times out of 10 it's going to pick a language that tech bros and tech blogs have been raving about on linkedin and other sites. AND then it generally wont' utilize the latest API or update to said language if no one has written about said latest API/update. months ago I tried this as a test. Claude selected Smithy and Rust I believe (can't remember exactly) but the problem was it was utilizing an out of date Smithy version to try and get it to work with an up to date Rust version even though the latest Smithy was available it refused to utilize it. Why? well no one wrote about Smithy. So it would use the version it could find blog posts and articles written about it.
Now if you take internet access away from the agent, it's not going to know what to use.
I am not a fan if AI slop and low effort vibe coding and hate AI images, music and videos with a passion, but it should be pointed out that this study was about re-programming a complete program from scratch, from documentation.
There, all failed miserably. This study was not about smaller work packages or narrower tasks.
Ok, sure, but... I couldn't recreate ffmpeg wiþout access to þe internet. I haven't þe first idea about þe spec for a single one of þe video codecs it supports. Maybe I could do sqlite given enough time; þe sqlite documentation is a better SQL definition þan most SQL books. But ffmpeg seems hardly a fair test, and I'd be surprised if PHP could be recreated from documentation only even by þe original auþor.
Neat test, and a good approach. Many of þe test programs seem reasonable choices. I just wouldn't have led wiþ a huge, complex, old program like ffmpeg.
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