Equation 48 · Part 1 · Why Coding Agents Fail: Long-Horizon Reliability in OpenAI Codex
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Better models raise many terms. Longer context can reduce some state loss. More tokens permit wider search. None substitutes for an environment that reveals errors and constrains consequences.
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