AI Horn Honking: Toot for Refact

April 10, 2025

What is one of the things we were taught in kindergarten? Oh, right. Humility. That, however, doesn’t apply when you’re in a job interview, selling a product, or writing a press release. Dev.to’s wrote a press release about their open source AI agent for programming in IDE was high ranking: “Our AI Agent + 3.7 Sonnet Ranked #1 Pn Aider’s Polyglot Bench — A 76.4% Score.”

As the title says, Dev.to’s open source AI programming agent ranked 76.4%. The agent is called Refact.ai and was upgraded with 3.7 Sonnet. It outperformed other AI agents, include Claude, Deepseek, ChatGPT, GPT-4.5 Preview, and Aider.

Refact.ai does better than the others because it is an intuitive AI agent. It uses a feedback loop to create self-learning and auto-correcting AI agent:

• “Writes code: The agent generates code based on the task description.

• Fixes errors: Runs automated checks for issues.

• Iterates: If problems are found, the agent corrects the code, fixes bugs, and re-tests until the task is successfully completed.

• Delivers the result, which will be correct most of the time!”

Dev.to has good reasons to pat itself on the back. Hopefully they will continue to develop and deliver high-performing AI agents.

Whitney Grace, April 10, 2025

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under AI, Marketing, News

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