Equation 2 · Part 1 · Ten Failure Modes in Agentic Coding, from Prompt Injection to False Completion
Symbol a
What this part means
the risk of an action.
Its job in the formula
a is an argument of the function-like quantity on the left; its role is set by that function’s stated inputs.
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Where the article explains it
The risk of an action a is not reducible to model error probability.
The passage around this formula
The risk of an action a is not reducible to model error probability. A simple decomposition is . where L(a) is consequence. Better models can reduce the first factor. Sandboxes, permission policy, independent evaluators, and staged execution reduce the others. Security architecture should assume every factor is nonzero.
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