Equation 7 · Part 3 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Claude Code and Agentic Development Tools
Symbol c
What this part means
the fixed cost.
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c is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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At a fixed cost c for each checkpoint a person has to evaluate, total interaction cost scales with the number of checkpoints: .
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…checkpoint and the next — the granularity of approval. A tool that asks before every action sets g=1 ; a tool that asks once for an entire plan, or once for an entire background task, sets g close to n . At a fixed cost c for each checkpoint a person has to evaluate, total interaction cost scales with the number of checkpoints: . Now suppose each individual tool call has some small, independent probability p of being consequential and wrong in a way a reviewer would have caught. The probability…
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