Equation 15 · Ten Failure Modes in Agentic Coding, from Prompt Injection to False Completion
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the mutation set. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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subscript
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Race risk grows with shared mutable resources. If workers i and j each have mutation set and , then filesystem isolation addresses but not intersections across external services.
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