[jrmg]

It kinda worries me that one of the big points here is that you can give non-technically-inclined users power by allowing them to build Home Assistant interfaces using Claude.

In my experience (and one look at the Home Assistant forums shows I’m not alone), allowing AI to write Home Assistant configs is a questionable activity.

There’s so much old, wrong information out there that it regularly uses (or tries to use) deprecated or removed features, and often even hallucinates config fields if you ask it to do something that is unsupported (and, of course, the user doesn’t know beforehand what’s supported). And you better have backups, because once it’s inserted unparsable nonsense or messed up the white space in the YAML config files, Home Assistant just won’t work.

Admittedly, my experience here is six months old, and I was talking to Claude not using an agent - but still…