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Benchmark Analysis
HumanEval Measured Whether AI Could Code. It Never Asked Whether the Code Was Real Work
HumanEval's 164 function-completion problems became the standard test for AI coding ability, but memorization and its narrow scope left a wide gap between passing the benchmark and handling a real codebase, a gap SWE-bench was built to expose.
2026-07-30