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<description><![CDATA[Adding more reviewers doesn't help if they're all looking at the same thing. Checks at different stages catch fundamentally different errors.



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<description><![CDATA[Coding agents don't make random mistakes. 87% of failures are predictable — omissions and systematic errors that compound through every stage of the pipeline.



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