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Equation 10 · Part 2 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Claude Code and Agentic Development Tools

Symbol g

Exposure per gap=1−(1−p)g.\text{Exposure per gap} = 1-(1-p)^g.
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What this part means

g is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.

Its job in the formula

g is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.

The passage around this formula

…tool call has some small, independent probability p of being consequential and wrong in a way a reviewer would have caught. The probability that at least one such call executes, unreviewed, inside a single gap of g calls is Exposure per gap=1−(1−p)g\text{Exposure per gap} = 1-(1-p)^g. This is the same “at least one” shape that shows up whenever independent trials are combined, applied here to the opposite question from the one it usually answers: not how many attempts are needed before one succeeds, but how many unwatched actions occur before one…

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