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BigCodeArena: Judging code generations end to end with code executions

Updated September 26, 2026 · 2:45 PM · source date October 7, 2025

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BigCodeArena: Judging code generations end to end with code executions BigCodeArena: Judging code generations end to end with code executions Team Article Published October 7, 2025 Upvote 22 Terry Yue Zhuo terryyz bigcode Evaluating the quality of AI-generated code is notoriously difficult. While humans can easily spot whether a piece of code "looks right," determining if it actually works correctly, handles edge cases properly, and produces the intended result requires running and testing it.

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  • BigCodeArena: Judging code generations end to end with code executions Team Article Published October 7, 2025 Upvote 22 Terry Yue Zhuo terryyz bigcode Evaluating the quality of AI-generated code is notoriously difficult.
  • While humans can easily spot whether a piece of code "looks right," determining if it actually works correctly, handles edge cases properly, and produces the intended result requires running and testing it.
  • This is why today, we're thrilled to announce BigCodeArena -- the first human-in-the-loop platform for evaluating code generation models through execution.
  • Inspired by LMArena for LLMs, we've built a platform that allows anyone to compare code generation models side-by-side, but with a crucial difference: you can actually run the code and see what it produces .
  • Just submit a coding task, watch two different models generate solutions, execute both programs, and vote on which model produced better results.
  • The outcomes are organized into a leaderboard that displays the community's highest-rated models.
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