Second-Opinions

I recently made a small change to my home automation setup: a robot vacuum that used to start on a rigid 10-minute “away” timer should instead wait until a larger geofence is actually crossed — no more triggering just because someone stepped out to the mailbox. A tiny feature. It should have been a ten-minute edit. It was not, because in this house even the vacuum cleaner has opinions about the security system. ...

I’m starting this blog for a simple reason: I’ve been running my home automation system with an AI coding agent acting less like a chatbot and more like a project lead — reading a backlog, opening pull requests, asking for sign-off on the risky stuff — for months now. It’s been genuinely useful, occasionally broken in genuinely funny ways, and at this point my AI agent has more commit access to my house than most of my actual family. ...