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Often when I consider learning a new skill or improving an existing one, I conceive of a system that would force me to improve, rather than forget about it (as I am won to do). See 2026-01-19#Ulysses Pacts.
Conventional "home assistant" tech and doctrine caters to a class of people I find bizarre, those that would spend enormous sums of cash and effort just for the marginal benefit of not having to touch light switches as often as normal people. Instead they get to take out their phone, find and open the light switch app, and touch a virtual light switch because the routines they programmed were too conservative.
Human or software, an assistant without agency and the will to contradict you is worthless. If the effort to communicate your instructions exceeds the effort to perform them, you will always do the task yourself.