Raising the bar on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Our latest model, the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, achieved 49% on SWE-bench Verified, a software engineering evaluation, beating the previous state-of-the-art model's 45%. This post explains the "agent" we built around the model, and is intended to help developers get the best possible performance out of Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
SWE-bench is an AI evaluation benchmark that assesses a model's ability to complete real-world software engineering tasks. Specifically, it tests how the model can resolve GitHub issues from popular open-source Python repositories. For each task in the benchmark, the AI model is given a set up Python environment and the checkout (a local working copy) of the repository from just before the issue was resolved. The model then needs to understand, modify, and test the code before submitting its proposed solution.
Each solution is graded against the real unit tests from the pull request that closed the original GitHub issue. This tests whether the AI model was able to achieve the same functionality as the original human author of the PR.
