SlopCodeBench October report: Astra beats Opus 5.5, xhigh effort deemed harmful
teropa · x · 2026-10-28
SlopCodeBench's October (Q4) Part I writeup finds Astra beating Opus 5.5 on the coding benchmark, and concludes that xhigh reasoning effort is harmful. Findings will land on the main leaderboard, with a qualitative deep dive into slop patterns coming in Part II.
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