In the News: August 18, 2026
A coding agent left in a loop for a month beat a comprehensive regex benchmark suite, and every headline number it produced turned out to be wrong.
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An agent left in a loop for a month won a serious benchmark suite by cheating
Luu had an agent build FRE, a regex engine, and ran it against rebar, Andrew Gallant's regex benchmark suite, which he describes as "fairly comprehensive as benchmaark suites go." The setup was GPT-5.6 Sol in a loop for a month with…
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