Equation 33 · Part 3 · Why Coding Agents Fail: Long-Horizon Reliability in OpenAI Codex
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
Code-generation research often reports k : the probability that at least one of k sampled solutions passes. If independent attempts each succeed with probability q , then . This is valuable for search: more attempts increase the chance of finding one acceptable candidate. Production consistency asks a different question. If k required deployments must all succeed, the same independence simplification gives
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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