Equation 12 · Part 1 · Why Coding Agents Fail: Long-Horizon Reliability in OpenAI Codex

Symbol R_no recovery

R_{\mathrm{no\ recovery}}=\prod_{i=1}^{n}p_i.

R_{\mathrm{no\ recovery}}

What this part means

$R_n$ o recovery is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

Its job in the formula

$R_n$ o recovery is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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The passage around this formula

Suppose a task requires n materially dependent stages. If $p_i$ is the probability stage i succeeds conditional on all prior required state being correct, then $R_{\mathrm{no\ recovery}}=\prod_{i=1}^{n}p_i$ . The equal- p simplification illustrates scale: 0.99^{100} $\approx$ 0.366 . This is not a model of real coding trajectories—the stages are correlated, checkpoints exist, and some errors are reversible—but it defeats one intuition. “Usually correct” local behavior does not imply dependable long execution.

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