Stop Replacing Humans With Software. Replace the Phone Calls.
One of the fastest ways to find an automation opportunity is to listen for the sentence, “I’ll call them and find out.” There is nothing inherently wrong with…
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Category: Technology
The Best API Is Sometimes a Raspberry Pi With Two Network Cables
Enterprise architecture diagrams have a wonderful tendency to assume every system has an API. Then you walk into an actual office. There is a multifunction printer purchased during…
Read article →I Put AI in the Presentation Layer. That’s Where It Belongs.
Weather With Regerts started as a joke. It has since accumulated thousands of phrases, themed packs, validation rules, deterministic selection, runtime reloads and enough engineering that the joke…
Read article →I Don’t Want an AI House. I Want a House That Works.
I have Home Assistant running enough things in my house that occasionally I have to remind myself the objective was convenience. This is one of the occupational hazards…
Read article →When a Camera Network Becomes a Time Machine
A camera on a road is easy to understand. A car drives past, the camera sees it, and an observation exists. We have had traffic cameras, toll readers…
Read article →Your Database Is Not Probable Cause
I have spent a large part of my career building systems that answer questions. Databases are very good at this. Give me a sufficiently well-designed dataset and I…
Read article →The Computer Found a Car. Police Stopped Looking.
A few weeks ago I wrote about what “human in the loop” is supposed to mean. Lindsey Isaacs’s case is a different version of the same problem, and…
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Human in the Loop Has to Mean Something
Angela Lipps spent more than five months in jail for crimes she said from the beginning she could not have committed. She lived in Tennessee. The crimes happened…
Read article →Building Things Because They Should Exist
A surprisingly large percentage of the things I build begin with the same sentence: “Why the hell doesn’t this exist?” This is not always a financially responsible question.…
Read article →WTF Did Chat Put in the Database?
Building Weather With Regerts for Home Assistant Home automation has a recurring problem: it is remarkably easy to make your house smart, and surprisingly difficult to make your…
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