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Every week there is another model drop, another agent framework, and another workflow tweak you are supposed to evaluate. Meanwhile, the largest companies, the ones operating at the highest scale and leaning hardest on AI, are also the ones making headlines for reliability strain: capacity limits, outages, and services that buckle under load.

The organization ran a farewell. Someone brought a cake. And on that same afternoon, roughly 22,000 undocumented decisions, like repair workarounds, asset-specific judgment calls, the kind of pattern recognition that only comes from two decades of showing up, quietly ceased to exist. No system captured them. No handover covered them. They left with the person. This is the operational risk that most field service leaders are misreading.

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