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ScarfBench: New benchmark for AI agents in Java modernization

Hugging Face and IBM Research are launching ScarfBench, a benchmark for testing AI agents on the task of modernizing legacy Java code. The benchmark measures how well agents can handle complex code migrations in enterprise environments.

WHY IT MATTERS

This addresses a critical practical problem in the software industry – modernization of legacy systems – and provides for the first time a standardized tool to evaluate whether AI agents are ready for such tasks.

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