Equation 13 · Part 2 · Reliable AI Agents Are Control Systems, Not Chatbots
Symbol p
What this part means
p is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Its job in the formula
p is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The passage around this formula
If one makes the deliberately crude assumption =p , a 98% reliable stage repeated 50 times yields 0.98^{50}0.364 . Real agent steps are neither independent nor identically distributed: an early mistake can corrupt later observations, while a test can expose and reverse it. The simple product is useful because it reveals the architecture’s burden. Long tasks require mechanisms that change conditional probabilities after observing evidence , not merely a model with a flattering average.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [9] SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues? ↗
- [10] tau-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domains ↗
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