Good Benchmarks
Artificial Intelligence
2026-07-13 v1
Abstract
Good tasks are correct, solvable, verifiable, well-specified, and hard for interesting reasons. The best tasks describe a real problem an experienced practitioner would recognize, in language a practitioner would use, with tests that verify the outcome rather than the approach.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.12217,
title = {Good Benchmarks},
author = {Ivan Bercovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12217},
year = {2026}
}