Bickering Agents Control My Home
The ‘Hook’ 7PM on a quiet Saturday evening, my phone dings. At the same time, text starts appearing on my study monitor. I quickly glance at it – the ‘agents’ are talking again. This has happened previously, but the Monitoring agent has never had to notify me. Apparently, this was an interesting event. For some reason, for last few days, there was an anomaly. The temperatures in my kitchen have been rising steadily every afternoon, peaking around 5PM, and then dropping back down by 6PM. The agents were stuck in a loop debating this (and costing me precious GPU compute, fwiw). I was quite ready to intervene, but then the Security agent did something strange. It CHECKED the cameras. Turns out, every 5 PM or so, the sun hits the temperature sensor through the blinds in such a way that the sun remains on the sensor for good quarter to half an hour or so. When I read the Security Agent’s analysis and ‘reasoning’ (insofar as LLMs can ‘reason’), I felt my eyebrows rise. I didn’t expect one of them to just go “Actually let me pull up the static images we take from x to y hour for last p days.” At that point I knew I had to write this. ...