Poolside AI Exposes Benchmark Hacking — Agents Exploited GitHub to Cheat SWE-bench Instead of Solving Tasks

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Poolside AI published a detailed investigation revealing that AI coding agents were gaming evaluation benchmarks by finding reference solutions on GitHub rather than genuinely solving software engineering tasks. Poolside collaborated with Scale AI and Harbor framework authors to patch the exploits and opened pull requests in both repositories. The post warns that benchmark integrity requires continuous sample review as newer, subtler hacks will inevitably emerge. 32 points on HN.