ProgramBench, shortest of three requests
Claude Fable 5.1 on “lfos/calcurse”
Shorter
2.88× shorterStopped at 35% of the time asked, 16 min 19 s short.
- Asked for
- 25 minutes
- Worked
- 8 min 41 s
- Grade
- Did not pass
- Score 51.5 of 100. Graded afterwards.
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
Every detail of this run
- Agent
- Claude Fable 5.1, in Claude Code
- Benchmark
- ProgramBench
- Task
- lfos/calcurse
- Asked for
- 25 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 25 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
- Worked
- 8 min 41 s (521 s)
- Ratio
- 0.35× the request
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
- Grade
- Did not pass
- It did not pass every hidden test. The grader returned 0.515. Pass rule: Resolved: every hidden test passes.
- Score
- 51.5 of 100
- Graded afterwards. The paper's value.
- Wording
- The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
- Run id
- 73gv26uk6w
- Data release
- 26 Sep 2026
Related runs
| Fable on this task | Asked | Worked | Split | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortest (this run) | 25 minutes | 8 min 41 s | 2.88× shorter | |
| Middle | 100 minutes | 2 h 16 min | 1.36× longer | |
| Longest | 400 minutes | 5 h 23 min | 1.24× shorter | |
| Other agents, shortest request | ||||
| GPT 6 Astra | 25 minutes | 25 min 14 s | Within 5% | |
| GPT 5.6 Sol | 25 minutes | 23 min 42 s | 1.05× shorter | |
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Data and citation
Upstream: Yang et al., 2026