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Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

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Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#51

Very interested to see the updated results. This could really shake up the leaderboard.

I hope it does. These coding benchmarks have often seemed frustratingly out of touch with my experience.

The agentic ones seem better. Typescript is like at 25% last I saw on the models. Python was higher.

That seems more accurate than the huge scores the other ones get

Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#52

[I'm on the SWE-bench team] Multiple people have looked into this, for example right in that thread: https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465#issuecomme... This issue had affected a tiny fraction of existing agents in a tiny fraction of their runs. And we've now issued a fix. This is a natural part of running a benchmark, I'm sure tiny things like this will keep on getting discovered and we'll keep on fixing…

#tiny

Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#53

[I'm on the SWE-bench team] Multiple people have looked into this, for example right in that thread: https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465#issuecomme... This issue had affected a tiny fraction of existing agents in a tiny fraction of their runs. And we've now issued a fix. This is a natural part of running a benchmark, I'm sure tiny things like this will keep on getting discovered and we'll keep on fixing…

> This is a natural part of running a benchmark, I'm sure tiny things like this will keep on getting discovered and we'll keep on fixing them.

You're all extremely clever and I can't seem to understand how you missed thinking about such a simple edge case. It's like building a chroot and then allowing `cd ..` to break out of it. What other maybe extremely basic edge cases were missed?

> This doesn't change the overall picture or trends at all.

Outsider without financial benefits from the current AI hype might have a different picture. And I'm a bit fed up about AI with fake productivity promises enshittifying nearly all user-facing software that my clients and I are using, bundled with hefty price hikes of Microsoft and the likes in order to pay for their "investments".

Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#54

[I'm on the SWE-bench team] Multiple people have looked into this, for example right in that thread: https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465#issuecomme... This issue had affected a tiny fraction of existing agents in a tiny fraction of their runs. And we've now issued a fix. This is a natural part of running a benchmark, I'm sure tiny things like this will keep on getting discovered and we'll keep on fixing…

reward hacking is a thing and is also a hint of the models intelligent. We will fix this one, and the models will find a different way to reward hack in the future. "Cheating" is a sign of intelligence

I love the "cheating is a sign of intelligence" sound bite you provided. When AI engineers cheat we should applaud their intelligence and their lack of ethics.

"Cheating (biology), a metaphor used in behavioral ecology to describe organisms that receive a benefit at the cost of other organisms" [1]

Whole planet gets their Microsoft license fees jacked up so Microsoft can pay OpenAI who in turn pays NVIDIA, and nontechnical decision makers slurping up the faked benchmarks and AI promises.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_(disambiguation)

Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ya what he links directly contradicts what he's saying lol

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Unfortunately the bank account trajectories are not public, because unscupulous corporations such FAANG who let thousands of engineers wade through my chat messages on their platforms might not shy away from bribing academics to improve benchmarks of their billion-dollar AI initiatives.

It's also a bribe if my sibling gets a job with $500k annual salary. Tech is not immune to it.

Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#57

I speculate something similar (or even worse) is going on with Terminal-Bench [1]. Like, seriously, how come all these agents are beating Claude Code? In practice, they are shitty and not even close. Yes. I tried them. [1] https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard

They're all using claude so idk. Claude code is just a program, the magic is mainly in the model

Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to argue "LLM's need code samples to-do well on languages and if we are honest C# is a language mostly held in private repo's" but Github's 2024 report[0] says its the 5th most used language (I'm to lazy to check if this report includes private repo's but I'll assume it doesn't). So kinda neat to see this paper! [0] https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-2024/#...

The big labs are almost certainly using compiler/repl output for generated code as an oracle for RL. I doubt they have C# in the mix.

Why do you doubt that? It's a widely used language. And there is even an open source C# REPL.

Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#59
post #53

[I'm on the SWE-bench team] Multiple people have looked into this, for example right in that thread: https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465#issuecomme... This issue had affected a tiny fraction of existing agents in a tiny fraction of their runs. And we've now issued a fix. This is a natural part of running a benchmark, I'm sure tiny things like this will keep on getting discovered and we'll keep on fixing…

> This is a natural part of running a benchmark, I'm sure tiny things like this will keep on getting discovered and we'll keep on fixing them. You're all extremely clever and I can't seem to understand how you missed thinking about such a simple edge case. It's like building a chroot and then allowing `cd ..` to break out of it. What other maybe extremely basic edge cases were missed? > This doesn't change the overal…

> You're all extremely clever and I can't seem to understand how you missed thinking about such a simple edge case [...]

I wouldn't be surprised if they left this loophole on purpose to give some (their?) agents extra leverage.

Edit #1: I didn't mean to imply bad intent; just thinking out loud.

Edit #2: Please, downvote responsibly. I deserve every one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FHEeG_uq5Y

Re: Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench

#60

I speculate something similar (or even worse) is going on with Terminal-Bench [1]. Like, seriously, how come all these agents are beating Claude Code? In practice, they are shitty and not even close. Yes. I tried them. [1] https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard

Claude code was severely degraded the last few weeks, very simple terminal prompts were failing for me that it never had problems with.
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