Equation 12 · Part 2 · Building a Custom Evaluation Suite for a Production Agent

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What this part means

The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.

Its job in the formula

A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.

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The passage around this formula

The practical answer most teams converge on is a tiered budget, and it is worth writing the tiering down as an explicit equation rather than an implicit habit, because an implicit habit is what quietly erodes into “we stopped running the full suite” a few months in. If every merge triggers a cheap smoke tier of $n_1$ tasks at unit cost $c_1$ , run $k_1$ times a day, and a slower, more thorough tier of $n_2$ tasks at unit cost $c_2$ , run only $k_2$ times a day, the daily evaluation bill is simply

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Learn the underlying idea

A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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