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SWE-bench Pro

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Definition

Plain language

A harder version of the benchmark that tests AI agents on real software-engineering bug fixes.

As stated in the literature

A more difficult variant of SWE-bench used as a code-repair benchmark in clarification-timing experiments, exhibiting messier value-of-information curves than short-horizon tool-use tasks.

Also called: swee-Bench Pro

Why it matters: Its harder, messier tasks better reflect real software work, revealing where agents struggle to know when to ask for clarification.

For example, it hands an agent a real, gnarly bug from a software project and checks whether its fix actually resolves the issue.

Heard on the show

“The other two benchmarks — TheAgentCompany, which is the enterprise workflow one, and swee-Bench Pro, the code repair one — show the same patterns but messier.”
Episode 035 — Why Frontier Agents Ask for Clarification at Exactly the Wrong Moment

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    Why Frontier Agents Ask for Clarification at Exactly the Wrong Moment

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