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The Inspection That Already Ran
When a mold repair introduces a contamination mode the training corpus has never seen, a 99% accurate vision system passes the batch — and the defect ships. The Hyundai Kona Do Not Drive recall of February 2026 is not an indictment of AI quality inspection; it is a case study in the gap between commissioning and maturity. Six weeks on a driveway is the cost no manufacturer reimbursement plan covers.
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The Rice Paddy Needs a Planner: What Japan's Hillside Robots Say About Agent Design
Japan's hillside farms cover 40% of cultivated land, with fragmentary cell coverage and a workforce averaging 69. They force a reckoning with agent architecture that enterprise AI teams have deferred. When the link is intermittent, the planner-executor split is 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.
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