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Equation 5 · Part 3 · What Changes When a Whole Team Adopts Claude Code, Not Just One Developer

Symbol p

S(g)=1(1−p)+p/g,lim⁡g→∞S(g)=11−p.S(g) = \frac{1}{(1-p) + p/g}, \qquad \lim_{g \to \infty} S(g) = \frac{1}{1-p}.
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What this part means

the share of a change’s total cycle time that code generation itself used to consume before Claude Code, so (1-p) is the share consumed by review and everything else.

Its job in the formula

p occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.

Where the article explains it

Let p be the share of a change’s total cycle time that code generation itself used to consume before Claude Code, so (1-p) is the share consumed by review and everything else.

The passage around this formula

That framing is worth making precise, because it is a structural claim, not a figure of speech. Let p be the share of a change’s total cycle time that code generation itself used to consume before Claude Code, so (1-p) is the share consumed by review and everything else. If generation alone speeds up by a factor g , total cycle time scales as (1-p) + p/g , and the achievable speed-up in total…

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