Why Most AI Coding Benchmarks Are Misleading (compass Paper)
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The COMPASS paper challenges the validity of current AI coding benchmarks by comparing LLM coding performance to a large dataset of human submissions, sparking discussion and inviting feedback from the community.
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If you don't mind me asking a more personal question, I would love to go back to uni for a master's in computer science & hopefully assist with papers like this one day. Do you have any advice for someone with industry CS experience (SWE) vs. academic to make the leap to the academic side? I genuinely love this kind of stuff and already make a decent living so it's not for money.