@Livingwell
I somewhat agree with your point. Being an engineer, I have seen this. AI is a big threat to programmers. In farming, automation is slow to come because of the high costs of equipment. Farmers can't afford it. So they use migrant labor. I live in a small rural farming area. People buy used and fix everything because competition with large corporate farms is fierce. Locals also support them by buying local farming products. And being a rural area, change is slow. But that means the people are friendly and help one another.
I could not respond directly to your comment, because the guy who started the branch blocks me, probably a MAGA. They all block me.
AI is not a threat to programmers. AI cannot program, it relies on large scale models, to suggest ways to solve a problems, but you need to be a programmer to understand it, or modify it.
It does make my life easier though. When I'm writing code, I use it much like you use a word processor today: As you type,, it suggests fixes to typos, and may finish a sentence you started.
I do, however, have an opinion about automation and farming. The latter is now big business, and automation is not new. It's been around for decades, and AI in farming, started at least a couple of decades before the most recent ChatGPT hoopla.
I have interest in this space as a technologist, and the stuff is pretty amazing. This is why farming is now, mostly a corporate thing.
Large Scale weather models, aided by small devices (IoT), distributed throughout the farm, will direct watering equipment, to water only the northeast portion of the field, because this is the part that did not get as much rain.
It also tells the farmers when to "harvest" and how, based on the weather model, using a "micro" prediction system, instead of listening to Channel 4 news.
Planting, harvesting, etc. is all automated, and far more advanced than any other AI application today.
The small farmers, however are not going to disappear. And my programming skills are not going to disappear. We go through this every few years.
