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ProgramDistill Benchmark Evaluates Coding Agents via Interaction with Reference Apps

ProgramDistill is a new benchmark designed to evaluate coding agents by having them infer and implement features through interaction with fully functional reference web applications. This approach contrasts with typical evaluations that rely on explicit instructions or issue descriptions.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-16T15:19:05+00:00 Detected 2026-09-17T05:20:25+00:00
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ProgramDistill is a new benchmark designed to evaluate coding agents by having them infer and implement features through interaction with fully functional reference web applications. This approach contrasts with typical evaluations that rely on explicit instructions or issue descriptions.

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Coding agents are typically evaluated with desired behavior specified through issues or instructions. In practical web development, however, agents may need to infer behavior from working software and implement it in an incomplete application. We introduce ProgramDistill, a benchmark evaluating coding agents on...

By focusing on behavior inferred from working software, ProgramDistill better reflects real-world web development challenges where agents must work with incomplete applications. This can improve the assessment and development of AI coding tools for practical software engineering tasks.

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