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3 AUG 2026 · Hacker News · 51 pts · 55 comments ↗

AI models have demonstrated the ability to reimplement entire software programs from scratch, with some models successfully completing tasks that would take human engineers months to solve. The MirrorCode benchmark, co-developed with METR, tests AI models on long-horizon coding tasks by requiring them to reimplement 25 target programs, including Unix utilities, data serialization tools, and bioinformatics software, without access to the original source code. AI summary