Equation 9 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Claude Code and Agentic Development Tools
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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 that at least one such call executes, unreviewed, inside a single gap of g calls is
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