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

"OpenAI’s SWE-Lancer benchmark was constructed from 1,488 real freelance software-engineering jobs with approximately $1 million in actual payouts."

SWE-Lancer uses paid freelance work from Upwork, including coding assignments and technical management decisions. Its tasks extend software evaluation toward work with real specifications and economic value.

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Source title SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?
Source authors Samuel Miserendino; Michele Wang; Tejal Patwardhan; Johannes Heidecke
Source year 2025
Confidence high
Importance high
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