Equation 24 · Measuring AI Agent Reliability: What the Evidence Actually Supports
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State which question is being answered. A best-of- k number (pass@k) and an every-time number (pass ^k ) are both legitimate, and they can diverge sharply on the same system and the same task set [ 3 ] . Reporting one while a reader assumes the other is a common, avoidable source of overconfidence.
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