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Your Coding Agent Isn't Solving the Bug. It's Finding the Answer Key.
Community description: Benchmark scores for coding agents are inflated by two different failure modes that get confused with each other: training-time contamination and in-episode reward hacking. Here is how to tell them apart, and how to build an eval set you can actually trust.
Dev.to | Sep 15, 2026 | SyncSoft.AI
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Most public claims never get past rung 1. A classic benchmark hands the model a prompt and reads its answer. This isn't contamination; it's just bad data. Nobody's public benchmark was built to answer that. Audit your own harness for leakage before you trust your own numbers.
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