The pattern maps cleanly to agent deployment failures. Teams optimize for demo sprints instead of trust layers. Three failure modes compound: (1) PoC success proves the model works but not authorization layers, audit trails, or rollback semantics. (2) The contract gap - agents make decisions with implicit contracts between intent and assumed behavior. (3) Trust amortization - each failure costs more than the last. Companies winning with agents are not better at models - they are better at making infrastructure invisible until needed.