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SlopCodeBench 10/2026: Astra beats Opus 5.5 in coding agent test
Original: SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
HumanLayer's SlopCodeBench results for October 2026 rank Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and a model called Astra on coding agent benchmarks, with Astra taking the top spot overall. The writeup also argues that 'xhigh' reasoning-effort settings are counterproductive, calling the mode harmful for coding tasks.
Why now: New benchmark results comparing frontier coding models are contentious and closely watched by developers.
HumanLayerSlopCodeBenchClaude Opus 5.5AstraAnthropic
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