You might be thinking along the lines of the O-ring theory. Indeed long supply chains accumulate errors exponentially.

However the origins of theory explored the outcome of disastrous and irreparable outcome of space shuttle exploding, lives lost, and billion of dollars destroyed.

When LLM goes off the rails the cost is much lower, and retry is on the table. In fact our core competency shifted from writing code to creating environment where agents can retry cheaply and course correct based on feedback.

A modest increase in the number of turns it takes to reach decorehenve could make a difference between Decoherence and reaching the a grounded checkpoint.