r/homeassistant • u/frenck_nl Home Assistant Lead @ OHF • 18d ago

Release 2025.8: The summer of AI ☀️

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08/06/release-20258/
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u/NomadicSun 18d ago

I don’t get the hate for AI. Being able to get rid of google/alexa devices and self host all that functionality is a huge upgrade for me. I love to see continuing improvements and functionality to that

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u/calinet6 18d ago edited 18d ago

I think hate toward LLM tech in general is understandable: it’s a problematic tech, vastly over-hyped, consumes way too many resources, is extremely misleading unless you genuinely understand the underlying tech, and the people who tend to idolize it are (to put it kindly) problematic.

However, all that said… if there’s one use case that LLMs are for, it’s to be the Star Trek Computer interface. That’s the one. That’s what they’re for. They’re language models and pattern matchers, this is what they’re good at.

And that’s what Home Assistant is getting close to here, and I think it’s very promising.

Anyway I don’t think we should be confused when people see problems with  LLM technologies: they are problematic. The best directions will come from acknowledging the complex reality, not trying to use them for everything, and applying them to use cases they’re good for (like this one).

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u/Dr4kin 18d ago

I know that I am very skeptical if any software announces that they integrated AI. Currently, every company pushes it down your throat in most products you don't want it at all, others make the experience actively worse and a very small portion actually benefits from these features.

Home Assistant does it right. Its optional and it's implemented only where it can improve a workflow or make it possible.

I don't need to want some glowing animated AI button and most of the UI replaced by a chatbox and that's what most companies are currently doing