Augment Code debuts AI agent with 70% win rate over GitHub Copilot and record-breaking SWE-bench score

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Augment Code, an AI coding assistant startup, unveiled its new “Augment Agent” technology today, designed to tackle the complexity of large software engineering projects rather than simple code generation. The company claims its approach represents a significant departure from other AI coding tools by focusing on helping developers navigate and modify large, established codebases that span millions of lines of code across multiple repositories. The company also announced it has achieved the highest score to date on SWE-bench verified, an industry benchmark for AI coding capabilities, by combining Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7 with OpenAI’s O1 reasoning model. “Most work in the coding AI space, which is clearly a hot sector, has focused on what people call ‘zero to one’ or ‘vibe coding’ – starting with nothing and producing a piece of software by the end of t ... Read full article.