Move to the benchmark built to resist contamination and the top model sits at 80.3%, and GPT-5.6 Sol lands at 64.6%.
“Frontier models have all but solved software engineering: on SWE-bench Verified, the coding benchmark quoted in launch posts, the top models now sit near 96%, with Claude Opus 5 leading at 96%.”
Frontier-model coding marketing built on SWE-bench Verified (Anthropic, OpenAI and coverage, August 2026)
Recorded 19 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
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