AI Agents3 min read
AI Agents
AI agents can't finish a Java migration without the build server telling them to stop
IBM Research introduces ScarfBench, an open benchmark for evaluating AI agents on enterprise Java framework migration. Early tests reveal that frontier agents are systematically overconfident about their own results, that configuration layers dominate effort, and that environment issues like Docker caches regularly derail migrations even when code transformations succeed.
2026-07-06