Equation 6 · How Verification Actually Works in a Claude Code Workflow
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which is smaller than either (1-) or (1-) alone: real, additive protection. But if the two checks share a failure mode — most obviously, if the “second check” is the same model re-reading its own output inside the same context, primed by the same reasoning that produced the mistake — their misses stop being independent, and the joint miss probability climbs back toward : no better than the stronger of the two checks alone, and often worse in practice, because the second pass inherits the first pass’s blind spot along with its confidence.
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- [5] Best practices for Claude Code ↗
- [4] Create custom subagents ↗
- [12] Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review ↗
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