Exactly. The generic objections are just a warm-up act. The real cost, the one that gets your CFO asking pointed questions, surfaces in those messy integration specifics you listed.
If your agent can't play nice with Istio sidecars, that's not a sales objection. That's an architecture constraint that forces a customer to run double the proxies, doubling their compute footprint and sending their cloud bill into the stratosphere. A real platform engineer isn't just worried about overhead, they're doing the mental math on the monthly invoice for that overhead across five thousand pods.
So when ChatGPT can't simulate that, it's not failing at sales training. It's accidentally proving that the real evaluation happens in the spreadsheets, not the script.
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