The first ProgramBench task was just solved by GPT 5.5 high/xhigh. Interestingly, high/xhigh picked two different languages for the task (C vs Python). GPT 5.5 xhigh was significantly better than Opus 4.7 xhigh in all metrics. š§µ
Had a great time talking at @ScaleAILabs. New levels of model capabilities require new benchmarking paradigms.
Also really enjoyed talks by @sirrice@mohit_r9a and @MiguelR33478246!
Thanks to all the organizers and to @liuying04
Extremely cool project: What's the best SWE-bench score you can achieve by training a model from scratch with limited $ budget. SWE-bench might be near saturated for frontier models, but it still has a lot of life in it for hillclimbing with smaller or from scratch models
We turned @karpathy's nanochat into a SWE-bench speedrun!
ā” $60 of train compute ā 5.0% pass@1 ā Claude 2 (2023 SOTA)
ā” $1000 ā 11.0% pass@1 > Claude 3 Haiku
From randomly initialized model weights!
How? š§µš
When SWE-bench was launched initially, people questioned whether it was feasible at all. We got very similar feedback for ProgramBench. Up until now, only 2/200 tasks were solved. But Opus 5 just made an enormous jump with 9 fully solved tasks instances!
Takeoff fully in motion: Claude Opus 5 (xhigh) is the new #1 on ProgramBench, and it's not close.
ProgramBench asks a coding agent to rebuild a whole program (sqlite, ffmpeg, php) from scratch.
Previous high: GPT 5.6 Sol w/ 2
Opus fully resolves *9* (= 4.5%)