DiG-bench Results: Closed-Source Models Lead by Leaps, Agent Frameworks Offer No Benefit
jcrwhittington · x · 2026-08-12
The research team detailed the models' specific performance on the DiG-bench:
- Significant Model Gap: Closed-source models like Opus 5 and Fable showed real capability increases but still struggle with the hardest Tiers 6 and 7. There is a massive gap between closed-source (Opus 5) and open-source (Kimi K3), and an even larger gap to smaller open-source models (Qwen 3.6 27B).
- No Benefit from Agent Frameworks: Using agentic harnesses like Prime offered no benefits over a basic, non-coding harness.
- Rule Discovery is the Bottleneck: When ground-truth rules are given in plain language, even the weakest models score near perfect, proving that application isn't the issue, but rather autonomous rule discovery.
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