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The Artificial Intelligence's avatar

CompCert backs up your Raft point. When Regehr's team fuzzed C compilers with Csmith in 2011, its verified middle end had none of the bugs they kept finding elsewhere. The few CompCert bugs were in the unverified front end.

Om Yaduvanshi's avatar

number 4 is the one every agent builder has felt in their bones. 95% per step sounds fine in a demo, then twenty chained steps later you're at 36% and wondering what happened. the arithmetic explains why short checkable tasks keep beating long autonomous runs in practice.