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Right now I'm trying to get an AI (actually two ChatGPT and Grok) to write me a simple HomeAssistant integration that blinks a virtual light on and off driven by a random boolean virtual sensor. I just started using HomeAssistant and don't know it well. +2H and a few iterations in, still doesn't work. Winning.

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Forget both of them and throw everything at my boi Opus 4.6.

HomeAssistant is probably doing too much for what you need. Imo it's not a good piece of software. https://nodered.org/ is maybe a better fit. Or just some plain old scripts.

It looks like the point is Home Assistant integration. I seriously doubt they need an led to be blinked on and off based on a mock sensor. That's either "for the integration test" or "as a placeholder for something more". Either way, the is failing.

Nah HA is defs what I want. I agree it's terrible software. All the more motivation for me to try throw AI at it. If the docs were better I'd just grind the docs instead it would probably be ahead, but the HA docs suck almost as bad as the code - which may have something to do with why the AIs are sucking now that I think about it ..

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