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Deterministic controls have had a lot of staying power for reasons that are pretty obvious. I don’t see what benefit we gain by leaving human comfort up to a LLM when a thermostat works just fine.

Just an aside, but I think venture capital will fall out of love with AI when LLMs start making decisions for customers and we are forced to have human support staff clean up the messes it leaves behind.

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I can't wait for the secondary problems cause by the limitations of "AI" understanding.

We have had some consulting company of people managing these systems in some buildings, and they would basically turn off climate controls in unoccupied spaces.

Then they started having moisture issues in the important spaces because the data spaces are cold, next to an unconditioned empty space, which got hot, and causes condensation on the floors and ceilings.

That’s not going to be a problem. As support will be the first function to be replaced by LLMs.

They will start worrying when revenue is continuing to decline even after burning through the third CEO.

I’m not sure if your are joking or not. I would not trust a system that made a mistake in the first place to fix the problem I am having with it or it’s decision. The “smarter” or more vertically integrated this system is, the harder it will be to convince it to do what I want.

You clearly are not thinking like a level 4 manager who has a vague grasp of how the system works beyond "This costs $X per year, how can we make it $X-1 next year?"

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