On SWEBench Pro, 68.5% of GPT 5.5’s failures were caused by broken or incorrect test cases, totaling 28.9% of the entire benchmark
Summary
An analysis reveals that 28.9% of GPT 5.5's failures on SWEBench Pro are due to broken or incorrect test cases, and similar issues affect other major AI benchmarks, raising concerns about the accuracy of current evaluation methods.
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