Equation 47 · Part 3 · Why Coding Agents Fail: Long-Horizon Reliability in OpenAI Codex
Symbol epsilon
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For consequential work, “be careful” is not a stopping rule. Let the maximum tolerable probability of material failure be . A conservative decomposition assigns budgets to failure classes or transitions such that . This union-bound allocation can be loose, but it forces explicit questions. How much risk comes from specification ambiguity? How much from an untested platform? What is the permitted probability of credential exposure or irreversible data migration? Which observation would reduce the dominant term?
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