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Maintainers merge 24 points fewer AI patches than SWE-bench says

Blind code reviews of 296 AI-generated pull requests by open-source maintainers reveal a 24 percentage point merge gap below SWE-bench Verified scores, alongside new MirrorCode agent benchmarks.

Oct 18, 2026By Lazy Tensor3 min read

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OpenAI says it has its automated research intern, on schedule

OpenAI reports reaching its September 2026 goal of an automated research intern capable of multi-day engineering tasks, with coding agents now…

Oct 17, 2026By Lazy Tensor2 min read