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Posted by rocauc 6 hours ago

Proof of Corn(proofofcorn.com)
273 points | 196 commentspage 3
travisgriggs 5 hours ago|
I'm waiting for the "Can it do Management?" experiment.

I do not have a positive impression/experience of most middle/low level management in corporate world. Over 30 years in the workforce, I've watched it evolve to a "secretary/clerk, usually male, who agrees to be responsible for something they know little about or not very good at doing, pretend at orchestrating".

Like growing corn, lots of literature has been written about it. So models have lots to work with and synthesize. Why not automate the meetings and metric gatherings and mindless hallucinations and short sighted decisions that drone-ish be-like-the-other-manager people do?

starkparker 5 hours ago||
If this is a joke, it's a bad one. If it's not, it's even dumber.

The point could be made by having it design and print implements for an indoor container grow and then run lights and water over a microcontroller. Like Anthropic's vending machine this would also be an already addressed, if not solved, space for both home manufacturing and ag/garden automation.

It'd still be novel to see an LLM figure it out from scratch step by step, and a hell of a lot more interesting than whatever the fuck this is. Googling farmland in Iowa or Texas and then writing instructions for people to do the actual work isn't novel or interesting; of course an LLM can write and fill out forms. But the end result still primarily relies on people to execute those forms and affect the world, invalidating the point. Growing corn would be interesting, project managing corn isn't.

jdwg 4 hours ago||
Is it easy to make money by growing corn? Probably not.

So this is a very legitimate test. We may learn some interesting ways that planting, growing, harvesting, storing, and selling corn can go wrong.

I certainly wouldn't expect to make money on my first or second try!

recursive 4 hours ago||
This is still just going to be hiring someone else to grow corn, but with extra steps. The AI part seems kind of slapped-on here.
socalgal2 5 hours ago||
HN type "about the website itself, not it's content" comment but ... it would be great if we could somehow get the major browser vendors to agree on some monospaced fonts. I'm on M1 Mac and the small ASCII diagram, nothing lines up (Safari/Firefox/Chrome). I see this on many ASCII diagrams. Maybe that's the site's fault. Not sure)
snackbroken 3 hours ago|
The diagram looks correct for me when I disable CSS on the page or edit it's font-family to be "monospace". Seems like Geist Mono might just be borked.
ironbound 4 hours ago||
Commanding a bunch of twitch streamers, seem a lower entry cost for this test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IflNUap2HME

fanatic2pope 3 hours ago||
> When we harvest corn in October...

We, as in humans?

bradgranath 4 hours ago||
This is the literal definition of a Reverse Centaur.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

ks2048 4 hours ago||
"Every decision will be logged. Every API call documented." ...

So, where are the exact logs of the prompts and responses to Claude? Under "/log" I do not see this.

snowmobile 3 hours ago|
Remember the website is entirely AI-built; it's not surprising it's promising a bunch of stuff it's not actually delivering.
FuturisticLover 5 hours ago|
I am not sure how it different than what we do with llms on daily basis.

We feed it the information as a context to help us make a plan or strategy to achieve or get something.

They are also doing the same. They will be feeding the sensor, weather and other info, so claude can give them plan to execute.

Ultimately, they need to execute everything.

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