Agricultural AI has adopted an unusual rhetorical strategy: it is marketing itself against the hype cycle that has defined every other AI sector. The Phospholutions CEO's claim that the most impactful AI in farming 'will not feel revolutionary' [10] is not humility — it is a product positioning argument. It acknowledges that the farmers most likely to adopt AI tools are the ones who have watched a decade of overpromised agricultural technology fail to deliver at the moment of planting or harvest. Dependability is the argument because unreliability is the…