Equation 41 · Why Coding Agents Fail: Long-Horizon Reliability in OpenAI Codex
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the check cost. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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Checkpoint placement is a value-of-information problem. Let an unchecked latent error at stage i create expected downstream loss , a check cost , detection probability , and false-alarm cost . A check is favorable when, approximately,
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