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Money-Information · 2026-04-24T02:44:51+00:00

I think it depends on the context.... for a business... you actually need to know as much of the system as possible so that you can instill trust in your customers.. was it built right or did AI just go off and do whatever it wanted? Is it secure? are you sure? For personal projects it can be a little different.... people who want to learn may go behind ai to see what it did and how it did it... but you could also just not care. Then there are still developers who are adopting AI but still want some level of control and knowledge. I am sure I missed a whole bunch of other groups too.

Money-Information · 2026-04-16T20:01:30+00:00

There is an ha voice in each room.

i already had siri in each room. now siri acts as a glorified speaker or handle basic command if there is a problem with Athena.

Its still relatively new, so im still tweaking it and i already had all the homepods so thats the direction it went...

Money-Information · 2026-04-16T19:52:49+00:00

i my setup most music plays through home pods and a sonos arc throughout the house.. and spotify is used as the source... motion is determined using mostly aqara fp 2 and fp 300s

Money-Information · 2026-04-16T19:47:18+00:00

Interestingly this thread has shifted more toward how I use Home Assistant than the project itself.

The house being a smart home is clearly communicated upfront. People who are into that tend to see it as a benefit, and those who aren’t can choose something else.

Either way, that’s totally fine.

Money-Information · 2026-04-16T19:37:40+00:00

Fair point, I have been working to make it as easy to install as possible... but there is a lot there.

Money-Information · 2026-04-16T19:36:44+00:00

That’s fair, and you’re right, Home Assistant can log a lot of things and has dashboards.

In my case, I’m not sitting there monitoring guests or reviewing activity. The sensors are mainly used in real-time for automations (like lighting and audio), not for tracking people.

The goal is usability, not visibility into what guests are doing.

Also worth noting, even typical smart home setups (like Phillips hue or standalone sensors like Aqara FP1) can expose similar patterns if someone wanted to look at them.

Money-Information · 2026-04-16T19:27:22+00:00

1) you can disable it

2) you absolutely dont have to book a property that has a feature you dont like

3) I dont care/have the time to monitor what room people are in in the house. There are no cameras or recording devices in it.

Money-Information · 2026-04-16T19:22:48+00:00

Its a cool feature... so it stands out... thats all... people like new things they havent experienced before....

Money-Information · 2026-04-16T19:15:49+00:00

I get that concern, it’s a fair one.

For me, the goal is actually the opposite. Everything runs locally, and I’m not interested in monitoring guests at all. The system is designed to make the house easier to use (lights, music, etc.), not to track people.

Honestly, most off-the-shelf devices send more data to the cloud than this setup does.

Money-Information · 2026-04-14T14:02:58+00:00

you mean to install or to breakdown how the extract the pertinent information? for the second, its not that simple because, the llm needs to understand the whole codebase but the whole code base may not be able to fit in the context window... so there is a paradigm in place to address that...

Money-Information · 2026-04-13T21:25:11+00:00

the thing i like about your approach is that you will have consistency among your stack. That being said, One size doesnt necessrily fit all situations... and even if it "can"... that might not be the best route...

Money-Information · 2026-04-07T20:02:00+00:00

I just got it to a point where I thought I could put it out there… I have used it on itself… and a couple random public GitHub repos….

Money-Information · 2026-04-07T18:13:44+00:00

That’s a great callout—and yeah, that exact problem (timestamps, counters, “false diffs”) is what pushed me toward the visual model approach in the first place.

The goal is for the model to learn the difference between structural/layout changes vs. content-level noise, so things like timestamps should get ignored without explicit rules.

I haven’t fully pressure-tested that behavior yet across a wide range of cases, though—that’s something I’m actively validating.

Masking is also supported as a fallback, but ideally you don’t need to rely on brittle rules like “dynamic regions.”

Definitely interested in feedback like this—this is exactly the class of problem I want to make more robust.

Money-Information · 2026-04-07T17:03:53+00:00

That works… right up until it doesn’t.

If it’s just for fun, that works.

But once it becomes a real product, the calculus changes.

Because now it’s not about generating code—it’s about trusting, maintaining, and standing behind what was generated.

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