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Episode 5: six shutters deciding on their own, from their room temperature and the sun's track across their facade. The model was built from the land registry and thirty days of correlation. Its most useful output was telling me where not to act.
Over a year of home automation run through an agent driving the Home Assistant API: 87 devices, nine ecosystems, 75 automations. What I got out of it is ideas I would never have tried, and diagnostics that cross five systems in one sitting.
Eight frontier models in six months, most sold on self-verification. On Solstice, our greenfield platform, four months of development with redefined working methods turned model quality into velocity: roughly 4,500 commits, close to 1,000 PRs, 120-plus releases. What we automate in July — and what it took to get there.
France's DARES just published its 2024 snapshot of the "forfait en jours" — a day-counted (not hour-counted) work agreement used mostly for managers. Who is on it, where, and how many hours do they actually work? The essentials, without drowning the reader in numbers.