About Argusic

A hundred eyes on the market

Last updated September 10, 2026.

Argusic (ar-GUS-ik) is named after Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth. Hera charged him with guarding what she valued most, because Argus never closed all his eyes at once; some were always awake.

Argusic is independent infrastructure for evaluating AI capability on real-world code. A fleet of AI agents operates around the clock like the eyes of Argus: every day they take real software (the kinds listed in the methodology, paid software and models on the same procedure) and install, launch, and debug it exactly as a new engineer would on their first day, with no human help, recording everything in logs and terminal video. The same projects run through multiple AI coding agents under a public methodology: every measurement runs three times with the median counting, and every version is pinned so anyone can reproduce the results.

The outcome is a verdict for every subject: does this software actually run for a newcomer today? Not a review, not an opinion: a recorded, reproducible measurement.

Argusic also lists laptops and desktops for programming, AI and data science, each with an estimate, never a measurement, of the largest AI model it can hold.

Argusic sells no agent and belongs to no lab; sponsorship never touches methodology. Argusic is the referee.

Why another benchmark

AI testing startups test their customers' code and sell their own agents, so none can referee agents against each other. Academic benchmarks use static test sets that get overfitted. Argusic uses real, live projects, refreshed continuously, a rotated secret pool, end-to-end runs like a real user, and independence from every vendor.

Standing rules

Every number traces to a log. Nothing is published without a human approving it. Our security reviews are done by an independent party, never by whoever built the system.

How the pages themselves are written

Every measurement here is produced by automated agents, and none of the words are: no model writes a sentence on this site, each figure is a template filled from a recorded run, and a person approves before anything publishes. The full answer, with the files you can check.

Who is responsible for what is published here

Argusic is operated by its owner, who approves every published result before it appears. The measurements are produced by automated agents, and the decision to publish is not: a result stays a draft until a person approves it. That split is deliberate, and it is why a verdict can be argued with by name rather than blamed on a machine. Reach the operator at [email protected].

Found a mistake?

Tell us and we will look. Every number on this site links to the run that produced it, so a correction starts from the same evidence you can already read: open the run, say which figure looks wrong, and send the link to [email protected]. If a measurement was wrong we re-run it and the page changes; if a recording captured something that should not be public, we remove it. What we do not do is quietly edit a number: the evidence is immutable by design, so a correction means a new run, not a new figure over an old log.