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/Risley 18d ago

Saying it’s over hyped is absurd. It’s extremely useful compared to old school google searches. 

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u/calinet6 18d ago

Ridiculous. It’s insanely overhyped. It’s being treated like the second coming of the Internet, not just an improvement on Google searches.

Of course it’s useful and an improvement on older tech, but does that mean Nvidia should be the most valuable company in the world? No.

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u/Risley 17d ago

What does Nvidia stock value have to do with whether AI is a significant tech leap?