Coding agents can finish frontend changes while breaking existing website behavior

ProductWebBench separates requested functionality from website continuity, finding continuity failures in 28.2% of Change runs that passed every requested-work check.

Chinese Tech
Jiajun Wu · Jian Yang · Yaxin Du · Shukai Liu · Linzheng Chai · Tuney Zheng · +6 more

Beihang University · IQuest Research · Huawei Technologies Ltd.

Research Digest··2 min read
Wu and colleagues introduce ProductWebBench, a benchmark that tests whether frontend coding agents preserve a working website while implementing new requirements.

The benchmark contains 320 Change tasks involving existing repositories and 80 Build tasks for longer website-construction projects.

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Research Digest

Written by Alwyn Sage, research editor. Plate by Ollie Flash, picture desk.

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