RL practitioner: ~10,000 tasks still stump every frontier coding model
max_paperclips · x · 2026-10-16
Practitioner robmcrobberson notes that despite hype that frontier coding models can do anything, he has about ten thousand RL tasks that still stump every model on Earth — "we are so unfathomably early." Another researcher shared the sentiment, suggesting industry expectations for coding model capability are far ahead of reality.
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