> My impression was entirely the opposite; the unsolved subset of SWE-bench verified problems are memorizable (solutions are pulled from public GitHub repos) and the evaluators are often so brittle or disconnected from the problem statement that the only way to pass is to regurgitate a memorized solution.

Anthropic accounts for this

>To detect memorization, we use a Claude-based auditor that compares each model-generated patch against the gold patch and assigns a [0, 1] memorization probability. The auditor weighs concrete signals—verbatim code reproduction when alternative approaches exist, distinctive comment text matching ground truth, and more—and is instructed to discount overlap that any competent solver would produce given the problem constraints.