Real-world thread: someone prompted an AI to edit Home Assistant automations so any signal turning on the house's bright white LED spots would instead kill those and activate the diffuse indirect light strips instead. The AI also added rules turning all lights off at 10pm, with color ones switching to red only. The house now uses the softer glow lights by default and shifts to full red at night.
This is the classic promise of AI agents: a helper that handles errands and reminders on your behalf. Real cases like this show how close that promise is today. It is one of 57 sightings filed under Personal Assistant on Agent Sightings (number 4 by interest), and one of 266 involving Custom agent.
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Assistant mode: reconfigure Home Assistant lighting automations. Log every action, prefer reversible steps, and ask before emailing, paying, or deleting.
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