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b00ty4breakfast | 6 days ago

What a great idea! what could possibly go wrong allowing farmers with no expertise in writing firmware for gigantic farm equipment, overseeing code output from an LLM and then uploading it to the aforementioned gigantic farm equipment?

Let's just ignore the part where this wouldn't even address the problem at hand!

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defrost|6 days ago

.. and the farmers with firmware experience?

"Farmers" aren't a monolithic lump of homogenous yokels with straw sticking out their teeth.

The Ukranian farming community birthed the cracked and reverse engineered John Deere software now being uploaded into US tractors by US farmers to bypass kill switches, for custom addons, data retention, etc.

#NotAllFarmers are SWEs, great welders, advanced diesel mechanics, pilots, ... but all these skillsets are within or closely adjacent to farming communities.

Braxton1980|5 days ago

I don't think he was calling them yokels. Software for farm equipment is very specific field. I don't think it would matter if they were software developers because that mostly means front end and back end web development.