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Posted by rocauc 8 hours ago

Proof of Corn(proofofcorn.com)
299 points | 219 commentspage 4
bradgranath 6 hours ago|
This is the literal definition of a Reverse Centaur.

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

ks2048 5 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 5 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.
aaln 5 hours ago||
Really cool - even cooler if some farming related hardware on a designated plot of land can be setup so it's more than an ai agent finding someone to hire via apis.
fanatic2pope 5 hours ago||
> When we harvest corn in October...

We, as in humans?

nonethewiser 7 hours ago||
You can lease 5 acres in Iowa for $1370? Per month I guess? In which case it will be $1370 * m. Not clear from here: https://proofofcorn.com/
dghlsakjg 4 hours ago|
A quick search of actual data shows that farmland suitable for row crops sells for ~$11k per acre so a 5 acre area would be around $55k. If the market rate for that type of land was $1,370 per month, that comes to a rate of return near 30% yearly (assuming leases are yearly, not seasonal)![0]

I dug a little deeper and found this study showing cash rental rates per acre per year ranging from $215 to $295.[1] So it actually looks like Claude got this one right.

Of course I know nothing about renting farmland, but if you ask to rent 5 acres the average farm size is in 300+ acre region, the land owners might tell you to get lost or pony up. A little bit like asking Amazon to give you enterprise rates for a single small EC2 instance.

[0] https://farmland.card.iastate.edu/overview [1] https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/wholefarm/pdf/c2-10.p...

pragmatic 7 hours ago||
But "AI" already does drive the tractor/combine/sprayer etc.

Look up precision ag.

tw04 5 hours ago||
“A farm coordinator doesn’t plant every seed”

Huh? I have no doubt that mega corporate farms have a “farm manager”, but I can tell you having grown up in small town America, that’s just not a thing. My buddies dad’s were “farm manager”, and absolutely planted every seed of corn (until the boys were old enough to drive the tractor and then it was split duty), and the big farms also harvested their own and the smaller ones hired it out.

So unless claude is planning on learning to drive a tractor it’s going to be a pretty useless task manager telling a farmer to do something he or she was already planning on doing.

serhack_ 7 hours ago||

   choice = random() % 5

   switch choice:

      case 0: blog_post

      case 1: tell_to_plant_corn
 
      case 2: register_website
  
      case 3: pause
  
      case 4: move_money
nxobject 7 hours ago||
Given how the front page's ASCII diagram is misaligned on my browser, I think I have a few concerns about factors that might lead to, well, oversights...
dieggsy 7 hours ago|
Ha! I was going to disagree, but then I realized I force most monospace html entities to use a specific font in my browser (using a wildcard stylus stylesheet). This is quite nice to normalize things (and sidestep atrocious font choices) actually.

Anyway, turned it off; sure enough, misaligned.

guerrilla 6 hours ago|
Looks like proof of cheating to me, at least for now. Definitely a step in an interesting direction, but not exactly SkyNet.
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