In The Age Of AI, Real Life Experience Wins

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

Nobody understands the challenges facing agriculture better than farmers. Now that artificial intelligence has made software development more accessible, producers with industry expertise now have the power to turn ideas into software tools to solve their own problems. Shay Foulk with Ag View Solutions says this tips the scales to where knowledge of the problem, the customer and the industry is more valuable than coding expertise.

Foulk… “ Everyone is a software developer now. So the people that have that experience, you just figure out how to use the tool–figure out how to use the tool, and then you can build it, and you can generate that success or better value proposition to your customers. And I think people got a little bit offended by that. But the veterinarian that has run a business for 17 years with small animals, you can be a software developer if you want to be. The person that has hosted podcasts, the person that has built a small town welding shop that has production of one component, I mean, you can be the software developer because you know the industry—you know the space better than anyone else. And this is nothing against software developers either. In fact, I think it's going to make their job exponentially better to help and assist with the tools in the right leverage standpoint. So it's the willingness to adapt, it's the understanding how it works and the potential there is pretty amazing.”

Ag View Solutions software, Farm Profit Manager, was developed in just three months by utilizing AI.