> When I see the new ag-tech startups coming out of accelerators or being established by supposedly seasoned entrepreneurs, the ideas that keep coming up over a

> When I see the new ag-tech startups coming out of accelerators or being established by supposedly seasoned entrepreneurs, the ideas that keep coming up over and over are vertical farming, weed-killing laser robots and insect protein. > They all seem to be based on this assumption that traditional farming/food production is antiquated and inefficient, and that what the industry needs is clever outsiders to come in and re-invent it with the latest technologies. And they all just seem to go nowhere. It's also based on an arrogant assumption that SV techies are smart, everyone else is stupid, and all you need to do to fix a problem is throw some techies with a bad cases of Engineer's Disease at it to "disrupt" the industry. > ...these issues aren't going to be solved by outsiders with messiah complexes coming in and telling established growers/experts that they're wrong/stupid, they'll be solved via unglamorous work over many years by people who really understand the field. That's a message that every software engineer needs to be reminded of daily. There's a serious problem with respecting the expertise and knowledge of people in other domains.