sudo L7 benchmark: best coding agents pass only ~45% of staff-level tasks

echen · x · 2026-10-09

echen (sudo) introduces sudo L7, a new benchmark measuring whether coding agents can act at staff-engineer level, with 60 tasks from real production repos; best agents succeed on only 45%.

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