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The Rice Paddy Needs a Planner: What Japan's Hillside Robots Say About Agent Design

Japan's hillside farms — 40 per cent of cultivated land, fragmentary cell coverage, a workforce averaging 69 — force a reckoning with agent architecture that enterprise AI teams have deferred. When the link is intermittent, the planner-executor split is not a preference but the only arrangement that lets the tractor stop safely. A physically independent critic completes the trio — and no board should approve an architecture that collapses all three.