PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER BenchMaxxing

"By February 2026, frontier systems had reached approximately 80.9% on SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark containing 500 curated GitHub issue-resolution tasks."

OpenAI documents the benchmark's rise to a widely reported frontier coding metric and the high scores achieved before its retirement. These results measured performance against the benchmark's tests rather than whether repository maintainers would accept the patches.

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