Coding Agents Have Converged: Why the SWE-bench Leaderboard Can No Longer Order Its Top Entries, and What to Measure Instead
Small differences on coding-agent leaderboards are often read as an ordering of systems. We audit whether the published verdicts support this reading, using 254 SWE-bench submissions across four splits without running models. On Verified, the leading two entries each resolve 396 of 500 instances. The top ten share 285...