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Your Eight-Step Agent Is Wrong a Third of the Time

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Let's start with arithmetic, because the arithmetic is the entire post. Single step accuracy: 0.95 Chain of 8 steps: 0.95 ^ 8 = 0.663 A model call that is right 95% of the time is a genuinely good component. Chain eight of them, each consuming the previous output, and your end-to-end success rate i…

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  1. 2026-08-29 05:55 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Eight-Step Agent Is Wrong a Third of the Time

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