Equation 1 · Part 3 · OpenAI and Claude on Agentic Coding: What the Independent Evidence Actually Shows

Symbol θ

s = g(\theta,\; H,\; e,\; \tau,\; \phi)

\theta

What this part means

the model’s weights.

Its job in the formula

θ is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

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where $\theta$ is the model’s weights, H is the harness or scaffold wrapped around it, e is the reasoning-effort or thinking-budget setting, $\tau$ is the strength of the test oracle used to grade the output, and $\phi$ is the model’s likely prior exposure to the benchmark’s specific tasks during training.

The passage around this formula

That range is worth writing as a simple decomposition, because it clarifies exactly what a published score is actually a measurement of: $s = g(\theta,\; H,\; e,\; \tau,\; \phi)$ . where $\theta$ is the model’s weights, H is the harness or scaffold wrapped around it, e is the reasoning-effort or thinking-budget setting, $\tau$ is the strength of the test oracle used to grade the output, and $\phi$ is the model’s likely prior exposure to the benchmark’s specific tasks during training. A…

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