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Re:Canaries in the Coal Mine? Recent Employment Effects of A... by dathinab on Thursday August 28, 2025 @04:01AM (#45049642)
> like this should have the context of SWE-Bench not existing before November, 2023.

Given the absurdly common mal practice(1) of training LLMs on/for tests i.e. what you could describe as training on the test set any widely used/industry standard test to evaluate LLMs is not really worth half of what it claims it is.

(1): Which is at least half intend, but also to some degree accident due to web scrabbling, model cross training etc. having a high chance to accidentally sneak in test data.

In the end you have to have your own tests to evaluate agent/LLM performance, and worse you have to not make them public out of fare of scientific malpractice turning them worthless. Tbh. that is a pretty shitty situation.

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