What Makes Software Issue Resolution Tasks Difficult for Agents?
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arXiv:2608.18280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background. Advances in agentic systems are simultaneously, and rapidly, saturating benchmarks. Despite this often discussed phenomena, benchmark scores remain difficult to interpret due to the lack of control and characterization of task difficulty. More specifically, we currently have little understanding of what makes one task harder than another, and to what extent task difficulty is predictable from static task properties. Aims. We propose a measurement framework to investigate and systematically quantify what structural properties of soft
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.18280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background.
- Advances in agentic systems are simultaneously, and rapidly, saturating benchmarks.
- Despite this often discussed phenomena, benchmark scores remain difficult to interpret due to the lack of control and characterization of task difficulty.
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