Comment by brookst
5 hours ago
It’s pretty far.
It’s the difference between “study law until you can pass any random bar exam” and “here are 200 legal questions and we’ll drill them, with me correcting and explaining when you get one wrong, until you can pass exactly these 200”.
Your right that tuning can aim for a benchmark, but it does not leak any information about the answers.
The first implies generalization. It's not a test of generalization.
It's actually close to the second. "Here are 200 software questions, will drill you on *other stuff* until you can pass exactly these 200. If the other stuff isn't improving your scores we will change ratios of it till it does."
The reason it benchmaxes is that *other stuff* ends up looking more and more like SWE Bench without you realizing it.