CWE-bench v2 Proves Software Security Benchmarks Are Still Guesswork

The claim: Hugging Face has released CWE-bench v2, promising expanded language coverage, improved data quality, and greater transparency for evaluating how well AI models fix software vulnerabilities.

The reality: The benchmark still evaluates models against isolated Python and JavaScript scripts in a controlled sandbox, ignoring whether a $20-per-month LLM can fix a memory leak in a million-line legacy codebase without breaking production.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Another benchmark for models that still cannot write a secure auth loop in production.

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