Why don't high benchmark scores translate to real-world coding performance?

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AI benchmarks measure narrow surgical edits rather than messy real software development. Claude scoring 80% on SWE-bench doesn't translate to solving 80% of real coding tasks because benchmarks are 'a lot less messy than how we write software'.

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AI benchmarks test surgical edits, not messy real-world coding