Equation 13 · Part 1 · Why Coding Agents Fail: Long-Horizon Reliability in OpenAI Codex
Symbol p
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p is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
p is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol p→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
The equal- p simplification illustrates scale: 0.99^{100}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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