TLAPS-Bench author concedes: proving properties doesn't mean bug-free

tianyin_xu · x · 2026-11-05

A user on X pointed out that even if agents can prove safety/liveness properties on TLAPS-Bench, that doesn't guarantee the underlying systems are bug-free, since the benchmark doesn't cover implementation — and asked the author to clarify this in the paper/README given all the snake oil around. The author agreed that TLAPS-Bench doesn't concern the implementation, joking that any silver-bullet claim is either BS or marketing, and it's sadly hard to tell the two apart.

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