A farmer in Japan is running a 100 hectare operation with software he built himself and he used to be a government office worker who had never grown a single plant

Meet Hiroki Tomiyasu who left a desk job near Tokyo with zero agriculture background and zero coding experience and taught himself to farm broccoli pumpkins green onions and soybeans across Hokkaido and then turned to ChatGPT and Codex to build the tools that a farm his size would normally need a whole team of engineers for

And thats where farming just skipped an entire generation of technology He photographs diseased broccoli in the field and gets a diagnosis in seconds he pulls satellite vegetation data and overlays it on maps of his own fields to see exactly how each plot is doing and when he wanted to control his greenhouse roll-up vents remotely he used Codex to build a system controlled entirely through a messaging app on his phone

Heres where it gets insane Tomiyasu says it feels like having an ultra-talented engineer with him at all times and everything he has built he documents publicly step by step as a farmer teaching himself how to code in real time

But the craziest part The tools that used to require a specialized engineering team and expensive proprietary machinery are now being built from scratch by one guy in Hokkaido who learned to code from a chatbot

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