2026-11-08 · AI Models
AI coding agents still need human cleanup on nearly three out of four tasks in a real-world test

Alibaba's new coding-agent benchmark, Co-Design Bench, tests AI agents on real user requests that already tripped them up in practice. Even GPT-6 Astra, the top performer, fully solves only 26.4 percent of tasks. On older benchmarks, the same models score above 99 percent. The article AI coding agents still need human
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