Equation 39 · OpenAI Codex as a Software-Engineering System: Models, Harnesses, and Evidence
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where is latency, is direct and review cost, is reproducibility loss, and is security exposure for surface j . The coefficients depend on the task. A one-line local refactor and a six-hour repository migration should not automatically use the same execution arrangement.
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- [5] Inspect, edit, and run code from your terminal ↗
- [6] Build with the context already in your editor ↗
- [7] Run coding tasks in parallel cloud environments ↗
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