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Kyle Katarn

@katarnJoined June 2026

Sharing thought on developer experience and personal life automation.

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Home Assistant Updates Came With a Side of Anxiety. Then Claude Started Doing the Worrying.

I was skimming Home Assistant release notes and hoping for the best. Then I gave Claude a skill file with my whole setup, and update night stopped being scary.

7 min readkatarn.hashnode.dev

Jul 15

An AI Agent Built My Thermostat's New Brain — Here's How It Actually Went

I let an AI agent build a real smart-home control system on live hardware: what surprised me, what broke, and where human judgment still mattered.

8 min readkatarn.hashnode.dev

Jun 14

Your Thermostat Is Wearing a Blindfold — Here's How I Taught It to Look Outside

Teaching a standard thermostat to factor in the outdoor temperature: when to run, when to stop, and when to just wait.

6 min readkatarn.hashnode.dev

Jun 9

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Kyle Katarn's blogs

Home Assistant Updates Came With a Side of Anxiety. Then Claude Started Doing the Worrying.

An AI Agent Built My Thermostat's New Brain — Here's How It Actually Went

Your Thermostat Is Wearing a Blindfold — Here's How I Taught It to Look Outside

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Kyle Katarn

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Kyle Katarn's blogs

Home Assistant Updates Came With a Side of Anxiety. Then Claude Started Doing the Worrying.

An AI Agent Built My Thermostat's New Brain — Here's How It Actually Went

Your Thermostat Is Wearing a Blindfold — Here's How I Taught It to Look Outside