The coding number everyone quotes says AI has nearly solved software engineering: Claude Opus 5 scores 96% on SWE-bench Verified. Move to the benchmark built to resist contamination and the top model sits at 80.3%, and GPT-5.6 Sol lands at 64.6%.
Frontier-model coding marketing built on SWE-bench Verified (Anthropic, OpenAI and coverage, August 2026). Recorded 19 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
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TRUE, BUTBerkeley News (UC Berkeley), headline on a 9 Oct 2026 story about an arXiv preprint; reached the Hacker News front page
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