JetBrains Research proposes multi-turn coding-agent benchmark SWE-TaskFlow
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JetBrains Research argues that coding-agent benchmarks should mirror how developers use agents across a session, including switching between questions, planning, reviews and edits.
The authors studied 4,782 real agent sessions in JetBrains IDEs and built SWE-TaskFlow, which splits SWE-Bench Pro issues into several turns.
In a pilot on 700 tasks, the split roughly doubled agent cost without a stable change in resolve rate, according to the report shared on X by Rohan Paul.
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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiXJetBrains Research says coding-agent benchmarks should match real user task flowsAIJetBrains Research argues that coding-agent benchmarks should reflect how developers actually use agents, switching between questions, planning, reviews and edits across a session. The authors studied 4,782 real agent sessions in JetBrains IDEs and built SWE-TaskFlow, which splits SWE-Bench Pro issues into several turns. In a pilot on 700 tasks, splitting roughly doubled agent cost without a stable change in resolve rate.

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