Surendra Reddy

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[Surendra Reddy @sureddy]

Agricultural robotics is not failing because the machines are not impressive enough.

It is struggling because the category keeps confusing better machines with better ecosystems.

The 2026 Robotics Ecosystem Map shows a sharper pattern: hardware collapses, autonomy stacks get absorbed, customers consolidate the survivors, and the durable value keeps migrating upward into data, orchestration, prescription, and defensible action.

That is where Zai enters the conversation. Zai is a working thesis under validation, a way to think through what a composable architecture for agricultural physical AI might require if we take the ecosystem gaps seriously.

Those gaps are becoming clearer: the prescription layer, the ISOBUS bridge, and the capital structure needed for robotics companies to survive the actual cash cycle of farming.

The inconvenient question is this:

Are we still funding machines, or are we finally ready to build the trusted intelligence layer that lets many machines, growers, and regenerative systems succeed?

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Human-in-the-loop sounds responsible. In many AI workflows, it is becoming a polite way of saying the human has been moved to the edge of the system.

We should ask the harder question: Are we building collaborative partners, or are we optimizing humans into border guards for machine work? And when the highest-value insight appears between two steps, will our operating model still have a human close enough to catch it

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If every AI agent in your company had to publish its real supervision cost tomorrow, how many would still look productive? And how many would be exposed as junior employees your best people never agreed to manage?https://t.co/byOonuYsxC

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This is more than a semiconductor MoU. It is proof of interface power.

ASML is not merely an equipment supplier. It controls one of the most decisive interfaces in the global innovation economy, the passage from chip design ambition to manufacturable reality. When an interface matters that much, the system around it begins to reorganize. Nations, capital, talent, and policy quietly reposition themselves to stand on the right side of it.

The Tata and ASML partnership in Dholera shows how a powerful interface crosses geography, geopolitics, and industrial boundaries at once. A Dutch chokepoint, an Indian fab, and a global supply chain reorganize around a single point of passage. Interfaces of this kind do not simply enable deals. They reshape the ecosystems that form around them.

For India, this is not only about building a fab. It is about entering the coordination layer of the semiconductor future, where manufacturing, talent, supply chains, research, and strategic sovereignty converge. The fab is the visible asset. The position on that coordination layer is the real one.

The lesson for founders sits underneath all of this. Do not only ask what product to build. Ask which critical interface you can define.

Because the companies and the countries that define the interfaces tend to define the next innovation landscape.

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$915M to pull carbon from the sky. $100B for one OpenAI compute buildout. The math shows where AI thinks its problem lives. But a carbon ledger can look spotless while the watershed and farmland around the data center decline. Regeneration > removal.
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🚨 Prompt engineering is officially outdated.

Anthropic just released the real playbook for building AI agents that actually work.

It’s a 30+ page deep dive called The Complete Guide to Building Skills for Claude and it quietly shifts the conversation from “prompt engineering” to real execution design.

Here’s the big idea:

A Skill isn’t just a prompt.
It’s a structured system.

You package instructions inside a https://t.co/aldvvbZeVI file, optionally add scripts, references, and assets, and teach Claude a repeatable workflow once instead of re-explaining it every chat.

But the real unlock is something they call progressive disclosure.

Instead of dumping everything into context:

• A lightweight YAML frontmatter tells Claude when to use the skill
• Full instructions load only when relevant
• Extra files are accessed only if needed

Less context bloat. More precision.

They also introduce a powerful analogy:

MCP gives Claude the kitchen.
Skills give it the recipe.

Without skills: users connect tools and don’t know what to do next.
With skills: workflows trigger automatically, best practices are embedded, API calls become consistent.

They outline 3 major patterns:

1) Document & asset creation
2) Workflow automation
3) MCP enhancement

And they emphasize something most builders ignore: testing.

Trigger accuracy.
Tool call efficiency.
Failure rate.
Token usage.

This isn’t about clever wording.

It’s about designing an execution layer on top of LLMs.

Skills work across https://t.co/taoTr8bSkU, Claude Code, and the API. Build once, deploy everywhere.

The era of “just write a better prompt” is ending.

Anthropic just handed everyone a blueprint for turning chat into infrastructure.

Download the guide here: https://t.co/0SgDRAMhSg

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Creative Destruction https://t.co/yiTg3GpnVU

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Regenerative Leadership Compass: Seasons of Growth https://t.co/hUkq3UyVRQ via @LinkedIn

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