The May 2025 Sonnet still beats Sonnet 5 on livebench's coding score. On agentic coding it lose to it by 27 points. So what's the difference?
Summary
The May 2025 Sonnet beats Sonnet 5 on LiveBench's general coding score but loses by 27 points on agentic coding, highlighting differences in benchmark performance.
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