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Equation 3 · Part 2 · Agentic Coding Tools in 2035: Four Scenarios, Their Signals, and What Would Falsify Them

Symbol λ

ρ=λμ<1.\rho = \frac{\lambda}{\mu} < 1.
λ\lambda

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λ occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

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λ occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

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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 λ\lambda , while the organization’s verification stage — tests, evaluators, human reviewers — disposes of them at rate μ\mu . Treated as a simple queue, it is stable only while ρ=λμ<1\rho = \frac{\lambda}{\mu} < 1. Parallel agent sessions raise λ\lambda directly; that part is already happening, as the “agent teams”…

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