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Comment by lacunary | original | Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers
[−]lacunary · 2026-07-02 Thu 03:33 UTC · link
presumably whatever the top model uses and then some, since the human can use the model.

I wonder if a model could score higher if it had a human at its disposal?

[−]pishpash · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:09 UTC · link
Maybe models should ask for human-in-the-loop input, as a matter of convention.
[−]sinuhe69 · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:24 UTC · link
A model that can ask questions or ask for help when in doubt is indeed a major feat. None of the current frontier models can do that.
[−]olmo23 · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:37 UTC · link
With a human at its disposal, it could probably count the number of R's in strawberry!

In all seriousness though, adding capabilities should not normally reduce the effectiveness of a model (within reason: don't pollute the context window with millions of useless tools).