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Kyle Katarn

@katarnJoined June 2026

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

If you run Home Assistant, you know the little update badge. New version available. And if you're like me, that badge brings a jolt of excitement for the new features and a hint of fear that my setup

Jul 15 · 7 min readkatarn.hashnode.dev

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

This is part 2 of a series. Part 1 covered the idea: teaching a thermostat to look outside before deciding whether to run. At the end of the last post I promised to dig into the comfort problem — why

Jun 14 · 8 min readkatarn.hashnode.dev

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

There's a moment I kept running into that felt faintly absurd. I'd walk through the house, feel perfectly comfortable, and notice the A/C was running. Too often to be coincidence. I didn't fully under

Jun 9 · 6 min readkatarn.hashnode.dev

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

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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