Anton moved from game development to agricultural technology. At Taranis, his team uses AI and drone imagery to help farmers make precision crop decisions. He talks about bringing modern engineering practices into a traditional industry — where buyers are sceptical and the feedback loop between a software decision and a field outcome can be months long.
What we covered
- ag-tech
- AI and drones
- hybrid team management
What I took away
- Adopting new tech in traditional industries requires proof-of-value before process change
- AI and drone data create new engineering problems: edge compute, real-time inference, data labelling at scale
- Game dev trains engineers to think about real-time systems and user behaviour — both transferable
- Remote and hybrid teams in domain-specific tech need extra investment in shared context-building