ProgramGym
Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agents
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Details
- External ID
- 1414945276
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ProgramGym
- Website domain
- arxiv.org
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.18
- Tags
- coding-agents, llm-agents, programgym
Enrichment
- Niche
- reinforcement learning frameworks
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- training environments for program reproduction agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No ProgramGym is a specialized reinforcement learning and benchmarking platform for evaluating long-horizon software engineering agents. It requires massive isolated execution sandboxing, reproducible environment state management, and academic research into agent training dynamics.
What it would actually take: Requires building a distributed micro-VM/container orchestration cluster (e.g., Firecracker or Kubernetes) that can safely spin up arbitrary repository states, run tests, capture execution traces, and score agent multi-step actions deterministically. The hard parts are environment reproducibility, defending against arbitrary code execution exploits, and handling complex compilation/dependency graphs across hundreds of open-source projects. Demands expertise in distributed infrastructure, systems security, and machine learning research.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #2057 of 2780 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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