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Why does error compound in an agent?
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Every turn is conditioned on all previous turns, so a wrong intermediate result becomes an assumption and then a conclusion. Without a human watching, nothing interrupts the chain, which is why shorter runs with checkpoints are safer than one long autonomous run.
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