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Posted by rocauc 1/23/2026

Proof of Corn(proofofcorn.com)
381 points | 258 commentspage 4
socalgal2 1/23/2026|
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 1/23/2026|
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.
itsafarqueue 1/23/2026||
Slop.

I have zero doubt Claude is going to do what AI does and plough forward. Emails will get sent, recommendations made, stuff done.

And it will be slop. Worse than what it does with code, the outcomes of which are highly correlated with the expertise of the user past a certain point.

Seth wins his point. AI can, via humans giving it permission to do things, affect the world. So can my chaos monkey random script.

Fred should have qualified: _usefully_ affect the world. Deliver a margin of Utility.

We’re miles off that high bar.

Disclosure: all in on AI

recursive 1/23/2026||
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.
FuturisticLover 1/23/2026||
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.

phyzome 1/24/2026||
Can't wait for this to fail hilariously, complete with legal troubles.
jdwg 1/23/2026||
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!

MetaMonk 1/24/2026||
Proof of corncept was right there!
bradgranath 1/23/2026||
This is the literal definition of a Reverse Centaur.

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

ironbound 1/23/2026||
Commanding a bunch of twitch streamers, seem a lower entry cost for this test

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

pragmatic 1/23/2026|
But "AI" already does drive the tractor/combine/sprayer etc.

Look up precision ag.

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