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N-version coding agents and majority voting cut mean failures from 387 to 131.

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Tested across 48 agent-generated implementations of the Knight-Leveson Launch Interceptor spec against 1,000,000 random inputs, majority voting over three-version units dropped failures roughly 3x, and 11,000+ N-version units showed zero observed failures (arXiv:2606.20158). The catch: common-mode failures persist where the spec is ambiguous, so voting doesn't save you from a bad spec, only from independent mistakes. For high-stakes generated code, running three agents and voting is a cheap, measurable reliability gain.

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