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The speaker reports that a model trained on data only through 1930, after fine-tuning on modern coding-agent data, outperformed Claude 3 Opus on SweepBench.
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“model which is only trained on data up to 1930 on this like modern coding agent data and and it did better than Claude 3 Opus on on SweepBench so so this model that has like no knowledge of code whatsoever can be fine-tuned on a moderate amount of data and like behave better as a coding agent than this much larger pre-trained model”Play from 1:03:10Report a misattribution
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