Equation 20 · Part 6 · OpenAI Codex as a Software-Engineering System: Models, Harnesses, and Evidence
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
Long sessions pose a lossy-state problem. When a transcript exceeds context capacity, a harness may compact earlier interaction into a summary. If =f(,,) compresses state, reliability depends on whether f preserves commitments, failed hypotheses, file identities, and unresolved constraints. More context tokens do not remove this requirement; they postpone it.
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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