MirrorCode: Evidence AI can handle coding tasks taking weeks
141_1337 · reddit · 2026-08-17
Early results from MirrorCode, a benchmark co-developed with METR for long-horizon coding tasks, reveal that AI models can autonomously reimplement complex existing software without source code, provided there is a detailed specification.
- Case: Claude Opus 4.6 successfully reimplemented gotree, a bioinformatics toolkit with 16,000 lines of Go and 40+ commands.
- Efficiency: Estimated to take a human engineer 2–17 weeks without AI assistance.
- Trend: Continued gains from inference scaling suggest these long-horizon tasks are solvable with sufficient compute.
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