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/JQuilty 18d ago

People hate it because cocaine fueled MBA's buy bullshit from Sam Altman, Elmo, Satya Nadella, etc that they can magically eliminate most of their workers if they just buy their tech. This has lead to mass layoffs for no real reason other than hysteria, forcing employees to use software they were suckered into paying for even if it doesn't work well, companies forcing it into everything because other cocaine fueled MBA's and stock traders demand it in everything to show they're with the current thing, and we see stuff like path finding algorithms being rebranded as AI purely for marketing and hype.

Almost all this bullshit is being driven by LLM's, one very specific type of AI that has some very serious issues in execution, in theory, and the amount of resources needed to support it.

It's a bubble that needs to pop like how everything had to be quantum a few years ago. And big data before that. And then machine learning enabled before that. And mobile first before that. And cloud before that.