1) You are right and its impressive if he can use AI to bootstrap becoming a farmer

2) Regardless, I think it proves a vastly understated feature of AI: It makes people confident.

The AI may be truly informative, or it may hallucinate, or it may simply give mundane, basic advice. Probably all 3 at times. But the fact that it's there ready to assert things without hesitation gives people so much more confidence to act.

You even see it with basic emails. Myself included. I'm just writing a simple email at work. But I can feed it into AI and make some minor edits to make it feel like my own words and I can just dispense with worries about "am i giving too much info, not enough, using the right tone, being unnecessarily short or overly greating, etc." And its not that the LLMs are necessarily even an authority on these factors - it simply bypasses the process (writing) which triggers these thoughts.

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▲ TheGrassyKnoll an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> "...a vastly understated feature of AI: It makes people confident."

  Good point. AI is already making regular Joes into software engineers.

Management is so confident in this, they are axing developers/not hiring new ones.

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I started to write a logical rebuttal, but forget it. This is just so dumb. A guy is paying farmers to farm for him, and using a chatbot to Google everything he doesn't know about farming along the way. You're all brainwashed.

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nonethewiser 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What specifically are you disagreeing with? I dont think its trivial for someone with no farming experience to successfully farm something within a year.

>A guy is paying farmers to farm for him

Read up on farming. The labor is not the complicated part. Managing resources, including telling the labor what to do, when, and how is the complicated part. There is a lot of decision making to manage uncertainty which will make or break you.

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pixl97 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>A guy is paying farmers to farm for him

Family of farmers here.

My family raises hundreds of thousands of chickens a year. They feed, water, and manage the healthcare and building maintenance for the birds. That is it. Baby birds show up in boxes at the start of a season, and trucks show up and take the grown birds once they reach weight.

There is a large faceless company that sends out contracts for a particular value and farmers can decide to take or leave it. There is zero need for human contact on the management side of the process.

At the end of the day there is little difference between a company assigning the work and having a bank account versus an AI following all the correct steps.

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9rx 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> A guy is paying farmers to farm for him

Pedantically, that's what a farmer does. The workers are known as farmhands.