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The judge got it right where a small test failed

October 3, 2026
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Another signal emerged in TerminalBench. The judge’s preferred candidate solved eighteen out of fifty tasks during the search; another solved nineteen. When the full evaluation was repeated, the judge’s favorite averaged 36.7 percent and the other, 28.1. A one-task difference in a small sample had pointed

Another signal emerged in TerminalBench. The judge’s preferred candidate solved eighteen out of fifty tasks during the search; another solved nineteen. When the full evaluation was repeated, the judge’s favorite averaged 36.7 percent and the other, 28.1. A one-task difference in a small sample had pointed to the wrong candidate. The researchers observed problems in the second candidate’s code: a verifier disabled by default and a terminal tool at risk of failing. The judge could detect those clues without running the entire test.

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