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AI models tackle large software projects with new MirrorCode benchmark

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A new benchmark called MirrorCode has been developed to evaluate AI models on large-scale, long-horizon software engineering tasks. The benchmark involves reimplementing entire programs from scratch, with one task costing $2,600 and taking 19 days for an AI to complete. Notably, Claude Opus 4.7 successfully reimplemented a bioinformatics toolkit named gotree, a task estimated to take a human engineer weeks, in just 14 hours for $251. While the benchmark aims to be cheat-resistant, the possibility of data contamination from pre-training on open-source code remains a consideration. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could accelerate the development of AI agents capable of complex, long-horizon software engineering tasks.

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  1. Hacker News — AI stories ≥50 points TIER_1 English(EN) · yusufozkan ·

    What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?

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  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? Article URL: https:// epoch.ai/MirrorCode Comments URL: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

    What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? Article URL: https:// epoch.ai/MirrorCode Comments URL: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9157786 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 https:// epoch.ai/MirrorCode # Tech # Technology # TechNews # AI # Gadgets # Software # …

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    What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? https:// epoch.ai/MirrorCode Comments: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9157786 # HackerN

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  5. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · CuratedHackerNews ·

    What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? https:// epoch.ai/MirrorCode # ai

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