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It's extremely funny to me but this is basically the literal premise of season two of Person of Interest. Yeah d'uh it's just a computer how would it actually do anything? Well it just goes ahead and tells people to do stuff and wires them money. Easy.

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Though a computer could also just control robots that actually plant, weed, water, and harvest the corn. That's a pretty big difference from just 'coordinating' the work.

An AI that can also plant corn itself (via robots it controls) is much more impressive to me than an AI just send emails.

the corn seed is a program source file

Yes, absolutely. And further still, handle the assembly and manufacturing up the supply chain; like factorio.

Read all the comments in this thread from farmers or farm-adjacent people.

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