CRBugBench traces confirmed bugs back to the pull request that introduced them: 1,000 review tasks from 98 open-source repositories, plus 800 from two industry monorepos at one large company. The agent reviews the change in a sandboxed copy…
In the News: November 11, 2026 (Midday)
A Microsoft benchmark finds the best review agent catches 71.9% of known bugs, and its authors limit lights-off review to narrow, low-consequence changes.
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