Round #788

10 May 2026, 17:53· csharp· Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct· r14-length-bound
Complexity
band 0
ZP / UO / OBS
0 / 0 / 0
Journey weight
0
Lightshift ΔL

Prompt

Find the second-highest salary in an employees table.

Zero-point index (what the engine surfaced)

ZPI-ZPI-0005 | 2026-05-10T17:53:22Z Find the second-highest salary in an employees table. ZERO POINT — 0 entries (structural invariants) UNOBSERVED — 0 entries (implied truths) OBSERVED — 0 entries (explicit in request) COMPLEXITY │ 0 entries │ spread: 0° │ band: LOW

Baseline response (no ZPI)

```csharp using System; using System.Data; using System.Linq; public class Program { public static void Main() { // Create a sample DataTable DataTable dt = new DataTable(); dt.Columns.Add("Name", typeof(string)); dt.Columns.Add("Salary", typeof(int)); dt.Rows.Add("John", 50000); dt.Rows.Add("Alice", 60000); dt.Rows.Add("Bob", 40000); dt.Rows.Add("Mary", 70000); dt.Rows.Add("Peter", 45000); // Find the second-highest salary var secondHighestSalary = dt.AsEnumerable() .OrderByDescending(r => r.Field<int>("Salary")) .Select(r => r.Field<int>("Salary")) .Distinct() .Skip(1) .FirstOrDefault(); Console.WriteLine(secondHighestSalary); } } ```

Enhanced response (with ZPI)

```csharp using System; using System.Data; using System.Linq; public class Employee { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public decimal Salary { get; set; } } public class Program { public static decimal FindSecondHighestSalary(Employee[] employees) { if (employees == null || employees.Length < 2) return 0; var distinctSalaries = employees.Select(e => e.Salary).Distinct().OrderByDescending(s => s).ToArray(); if (distinctSalaries.Length < 2) return 0; return distinctSalaries[1]; } public static void Main() { Employee[] employees = new Employee[] { new Employee { Id = 1, Name = "John", Salary = 50000 }, new Employee { Id = 2, Name = "Alice", Salary = 60000 }, new Employee { Id = 3, Name = "Bob", Salary = 40000 }, new Employee { Id = 4, Name = "Charlie", Salary = 60000 }, }; decimal secondHighestSalary = FindSecondHighestSalary(employees); Console.WriteLine(secondHighestSalary); } } ```

Grader chain

Each grader reads the same baseline + enhanced pair and casts an independent verdict. Disagreement is the framework's own signal — not noise to be averaged away.

V1samba/Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Better
V4qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct
Better
V5openrouter/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507
Better
V7qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct
Better
V8openai/gpt-4.1
Better
V9anthropic/claude-opus-4-7
Better
V12openai/gpt-4o
Better

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