Equation 22 · Part 8 · The Economics of Codex: Tokens, Sandboxes, Review Time, and Software Throughput
addition
addition
What this part means
Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.
Its job in the formula
Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.
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The passage around this formula
If fixed deployment cost is F , variable cost per accepted task is c , and N accepted tasks use the platform, average cost is . Large organizations can amortize F across more work, but they also face heterogeneity: more languages, repositories, regulatory zones, and legacy environments can make fixed cost rise with scope. A small team can achieve high local value precisely because it standardizes one stack and keeps governance informal. Neither scale advantage is universal.
Learn the underlying idea
Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.
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