Yang: Unit tests and independent task instances limit SWE-bench's effectiveness
John Yang · [State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang · Dec 31, 2025 · at 3:27
John Yang, co-creator of SWE-bench, explains his motivation for developing Code Clash to evaluate interactive and long-horizon software engineering rather than isolated tasks.
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“I don't like unit tests as a form of verification, and I also think there's an issue with Sweepbench where all of the task instances are independent of each other.”
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