OpenAI retracts SWE-Bench Pro endorsement after audit finds 30% of tasks flawed
OpenAI has withdrawn its recommendation of SWE-Bench Pro, a coding benchmark it had promoted as a replacement for the previously discredited SWE-Bench Verified. An internal audit by OpenAI's research team found that approximately 200–249 of the benchmark's 731 tasks are broken, representing roughly 30% of the dataset. Reviewers identified four recurring failure types: overly strict tests, underspecified prompts, low-coverage tests, and misleading prompts that steered models toward incorrect behavior. The root cause is structural — the benchmark was built from real GitHub pull requests, which are designed for human collaboration rather than clean model evaluation. OpenAI is now calling for new benchmarks built by experienced software developers specifically to assess model capabilities, though no replacement has been announced yet.
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