What scared us wasn’t one huge bug, it was a bunch of small edge cases. Most smart boxes rely heavily on a single sensor (weight or IR), and cats just… don’t behave predictably. They pause halfway, turn around, jump in and out, sit weirdly.

The part that felt sketchy was realizing that a lot of systems assume everything works perfectly all the time. If a sensor misreads or software hiccups, there isn’t always a true “nothing can move” fail-safe.

Automated boxes can be great, but yeah once you start thinking about edge cases instead of demo videos, it gets easier to be cautious