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The two axes are not independent, and the coupling matters more than either axis alone. Picture agent-produced candidate changes arriving at an organization’s review-and-merge gate at rate , while the organization’s verification stage — tests, evaluators, human reviewers — disposes of them at rate . Treated as a simple queue, it is stable only while
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- [12] "The Maintainability Gap: AI Code Quality in 2026" ↗
- [3] Best Practices for Claude Code ↗
- [15] SLSA Specification Version 1.2 ↗
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