Equation 37 · Part 1 · Why Coding Agents Fail: Long-Horizon Reliability in OpenAI Codex
Symbol τ
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The first rises with k ; the second falls. -bench introduced a repeated-trial metric in this spirit and reported substantial deterioration across repeated tool-agent-user runs in its evaluated setting [ 9 ] . Coding-agent reports should state whether multiple trajectories were sampled and selected, or whether one configured system succeeds repeatedly.
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