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Developer Builds SafeCode Arena to Automatically Score AI-Generated Code on Five Axes

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A developer has created SafeCode Arena, an automated evaluation tool designed to assess AI-generated code candidates across five dimensions: correctness, security, performance, maintainability, and resource usage. The tool addresses a common gap where AI coding assistants like Copilot or Claude offer multiple implementation options but leave the final selection to developer judgment. Each candidate is scored on a weighted rubric, with correctness carrying the highest weight at 50 percent, and results are stored in SQLite to enable regression tracking over time. Code is executed inside a WebAssembly sandbox with hard limits on memory and instruction count, preventing runaway processes from causing crashes or resource exhaustion. The system supports multiple programming languages through a common scoring interface, allowing fair cross-language comparisons on the same rubric.

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