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Qwen3 Coder 480B Turbo (Venice) (thinking on) on Progressive tax on fictional brackets, and pre-tax vs after-tax savings comparison

QQwen3 Coder 480B Turbo (Venice)thinking on · venice-mini-agent v1.3.1 · cloud · 2026-10-24 · by @bobsiopener

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Wall time
34s
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Outcome
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Superseded. This run was rescored on 2026-10-28 and replaced by a newer run. It no longer counts toward rankings, use-case tables or the data export; it is kept here for the record.

Summary

Exact prompt

# Progressive tax on fictional brackets, and pre-tax ("traditional") vs after-tax ("Roth") savings `input.json` contains a **fictional** tax system (brackets and standard deductions per filing status), a list of incomes to tabulate, and savings scenarios. Write `solve.py` (Python 3 standard library only) so that `python solve.py input.json answer.json` computes the answers below. Use only the numbers in the input. We re-run it on fresh inputs, so do not hard-code anything. ## Rules 1. Taxable income = max(0, gross income - `standard_deduction[filing]`). 2. Brackets for a filing status are a list of `[lower_bound, rate]` sorted by bound. Rate j applies to the part of taxable income above `lower_bound_j` and up to `lower_bound_{j+1}` (the last bracket has no upper bound). Tax = sum over brackets. 3. Marginal rate = the rate of the last bracket whose lower bound is strictly below taxable income; if taxable income is 0, the first bracket's rate. 4. `tax_table`: for each `[filing, income]` in input order output `{"filing", "income", "tax", "effective_rate", "marginal_rate"}`; effective_rate = tax / income (0 when income is 0), 6 decimals. 5. Scenarios (each has `name`, `filing`, `wages`, `contribution`, `years`, `growth`, `retire_filing`, `retire_other_income`): - `tax_now_traditional` = tax on (wages - contribution); `tax_now_roth` = tax on wages; `tax_saved_now` = their difference; `marginal_rate_now` = marginal rate (rule 3) at the taxable income of (wages - contribution). - `traditional_balance` F = contribution * (1 + growth) ** years. `withdrawal_tax` = tax(retire_other_income + F) - tax(retire_other_income), both with `retire_filing`, taken as one withdrawal in a single year. `traditional_after_tax` = F - withdrawal_tax. - Same out-of-pocket cost: the after-tax account receives (contribution - tax_saved_now), so `roth_after_tax` = (contribution - tax_saved_now) * (1 + growth) ** years. - `winner` = "traditional" or "roth", whichever after-tax value is larger, or "tie" if they differ by less than 0.005. 6. Round money to 2 decimals and rates to 6 only when writing (bracket rates are written as given). ## Output `answer.json`: `{"tax_table": [...], "scenarios": [{"name", "tax_now_traditional", "tax_now_roth", "tax_saved_now", "marginal_rate_now", "traditional_balance", "withdrawal_tax", "traditional_after_tax", "roth_after_tax", "winner"}, ...]}` in input order. ## Scoring Hidden checks (partial credit = fraction passed; all must pass), money within 0.011, rates within 0.000001, winners exact: `tax_table_amounts`, `effective_and_marginal`, `scenario_tax_now`, `scenario_future_values`, `scenario_winners` on the given input; `fresh_run_1`, `fresh_run_2`: the whole answer on fresh inputs (tolerance 0.011). Each run has a 60-second limit.

Incomes placed exactly on bracket boundaries test the strict marginal-rate rule; the equal out-of-pocket comparison and the lump-withdrawal tax at retirement decide winners. Original benchmark task written for usecaserank.com (not based on a specific public post). Headless, offline run on a reproducible fixture. Cost shown is a list-price estimate (measured tokens x pricing.json list price). Rescore note (Oct 23, 2026): re-scored from the saved work dir: the original scoring step failed to start (exit 127, scorer interpreter missing), so the first score was not a real result. Model output and measured data unchanged.

These are synthetic test cases for comparing AI models, not financial advice.

Success criteria: 1. tax_table_amounts 2. effective_and_marginal 3. scenario_tax_now 4. scenario_future_values 5. scenario_winners 6. fresh_run_1 7. fresh_run_2

Setup notes: Use Case Scout batch 9 case j05-tax-brackets-roth-vs-traditional (offline fixture). Prepared with batch9/prepare.sh; hidden key/tests kept outside the agent's work dir. Prompt = TASK.md verbatim. Scored with the scout's scorer: `python score.py WORKDIR KEYDIR`. Tools: list_files/read_file/write_file/run_shell (venice-mini-agent v1.3), web disabled. Single run, no retries. Harness: venice-mini-agent v1.3.1 (/workspace/usecase-runner/venice_agent2.py) via the Venice OpenAI-compatible API: same tool loop, system prompt and limits as the cases 02-25 Venice runs (max 25 turns, max_tokens 16000/call, temperature 0.2, Venice system prompt and web search off, per-run cost cap $0.05, thinking on (model default)). Same task text, work-dir layout and scorer as the Claude runs of this case. Cost = measured per-call tokens x venice_prices.json list price; paid from the Venice DIEM daily allowance. Harness: venice-mini-agent v1.3.1 via Venice OpenAI-compatible API (16000 max tokens/call, $0.05 run cap). Score: 1/7. Cost is an ESTIMATE: measured per-call tokens x pricing.json list price (paid from Venice DIEM allowance; Venice billing not itemized). input_tokens include cached reads. Single run.

Estimated cost List-price estimate; not actually billed.

Metrics

Estimated cost
$0.0051
Wall time
34s
Human step-ins
0
Turns
7
Model usage
ModelInput tokOutput tokCost
QQwen3 Coder 480B Turbo (Venice)venice/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbothinking on25,9421,825$0.0051

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  1. Use the use case prompt on the use case page.
  2. Same setup: Qwen3 Coder 480B Turbo (Venice) (venice/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo, thinking on) via venice-mini-agent v1.3.1, cloud.
  3. It counts as a success only if it meets every success criterion: 1. tax_table_amounts 2. effective_and_marginal 3. scenario_tax_now 4. scenario_future_values 5. scenario_winners 6. fresh_run_1 7. fresh_run_2
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