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AVCWhat Will Happen In 2025
I've done a lot of these January 1st look forward posts in the 20+ years I've been blogging. I've used many different approaches. I sometimes talk big themes, like I did last year. I sometimes focus on just one thing. And sometimes I just make a bunch of predictions. I am going to do the latter approach today because I feel like it and it's so much fun. 1/ Apple and Google will leverage their existing market power to surpass OpenAI/ChatGPT in consumer AI prompts by the end of 2025. 2/ Waymo w...
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I had dinner on Wednesday night with my friend Seth, who has been building products and companies since I met him over thirty years ago. He was expounding on his newfound ability to build products and companies all by himself with AI coding tools. His enthusiasm was off the charts, and I decided to pour some cold water on it and said, "yeah but it can't do stuff in the real world yet." And he said, "Like what?" And I said, "Like grow corn."
The next morning this landed in my text messages.
As Seth writes in the story tab of that website:
SETH: “I can do anything I want with software from my terminal.”
FRED: “That's not fire. You can't like grow corn.”
SETH: “I bet you I could. You know what I mean? I'm going to grow corn for you.”
FRED: “That'd be great. Thank you.”
SETH: “I'm going to figure it out and I'm going to show you. And that'll be our first vibe coding project together.”
FRED: “It's a physical thing.”
SETH: “I will buy fucking land with an API via my terminal and I will hire some service to plant corn.”
FRED: “Okay, well that's a little different... you're going to get somebody to grow corn for you. But that's not exactly what I'm talking about. Like, you can hire Jeff to come and make dinner for you, but like you can't make dinner.”
SETH: “No, but anything that could be done with technology, I can do now. Anything, which is insane.”
So now, Seth has roped me into his project that he calls Proof of Corn, and we are collaborating in a shared GitHub repo with a goal of growing corn.
He made his point and it landed with me:
I had dinner on Wednesday night with my friend Seth, who has been building products and companies since I met him over thirty years ago. He was expounding on his newfound ability to build products and companies all by himself with AI coding tools. His enthusiasm was off the charts, and I decided to pour some cold water on it and said, "yeah but it can't do stuff in the real world yet." And he said, "Like what?" And I said, "Like grow corn."
The next morning this landed in my text messages.
As Seth writes in the story tab of that website:
SETH: “I can do anything I want with software from my terminal.”
FRED: “That's not fire. You can't like grow corn.”
SETH: “I bet you I could. You know what I mean? I'm going to grow corn for you.”
FRED: “That'd be great. Thank you.”
SETH: “I'm going to figure it out and I'm going to show you. And that'll be our first vibe coding project together.”
FRED: “It's a physical thing.”
SETH: “I will buy fucking land with an API via my terminal and I will hire some service to plant corn.”
FRED: “Okay, well that's a little different... you're going to get somebody to grow corn for you. But that's not exactly what I'm talking about. Like, you can hire Jeff to come and make dinner for you, but like you can't make dinner.”
SETH: “No, but anything that could be done with technology, I can do now. Anything, which is insane.”
So now, Seth has roped me into his project that he calls Proof of Corn, and we are collaborating in a shared GitHub repo with a goal of growing corn.
He made his point and it landed with me:
This project isn't just about growing corn. It's about documenting what happens when you take AI seriously as a collaborator rather than a tool.
Every decision will be logged. Every API call documented. Every dollar tracked. When we harvest corn in October, we'll have a complete record of how an idea became a reality—with AI as the orchestration layer.
This project isn't just about growing corn. It's about documenting what happens when you take AI seriously as a collaborator rather than a tool.
Every decision will be logged. Every API call documented. Every dollar tracked. When we harvest corn in October, we'll have a complete record of how an idea became a reality—with AI as the orchestration layer.
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Hi Casters. A walk after dinner with @seth turned into an effort to grow corn. The story is here https://avc.xyz/can-ai-grow-corn
careful of the emoji tho lmzo
great discussion happening here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735511
i saw that and loved it
lol keep us posted
https://farcaster.xyz/borst.eth/0xccd6e21e
idk fred this project is kinda corny
It proves the point that AI is powerful "middleware", a means to an end.