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Legacy-Bench: frontier agents pass only 16.9–42.5% of COBOL, Java 7 and Fortran tasks

Hundreds of tasks across six legacy language families (46% COBOL, 32% Java 7) with hidden verification tests. Bug fixing scores roughly twice implementation, which scores roughly twice migration. In 97% of failures the agent believed it had solved the task.

The numbers (as reported)

Pass rate range (12 model–agent combos)16.9%–42.5%
Same models on Terminal-Bench 2 / SWE-bench Verified>70%
Best overall (GPT-5.3-Codex)42.5%
Tasks no model solves44 (31 of them COBOL)
Failures where agent believed it succeeded97%

Facts

Company / subject
Factory
Tools
Droid, Codex, Gemini CLI
Codebase
brownfield
Work type
Benchmark
Stack
COBOL, Java 7, BASIC, C89, Fortran, Assembly
Published
2026-04-01
Last checked
2026-10-17

Caveats

Published by Factory, whose own agent (Droid) is reported as outperforming providers' agents. Only 10 sample tasks are public. Models evaluated include GPT-5.3-Codex, Gemini-3.1-Pro, Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.

Source

Factory

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