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type: this-week-with
url: 'https://taylordrayson.com/2025/10/03/tww-s6-e222'
title: 'Season 6, Episode 222'
date: '2025-10-03T13:00:00+01:00'
fields:
  episode: S6E222
  season: '6'
  number: '222'
  topic: 'Podcast Origins - Making Our Home Assistant Experience Better - Creating a List of Entities for AI to assist with automation - Short Term Gratification Is Not The Way To Go - Rebuilding With A Framework - Commenting Your Code - No Need to Over Engineer For Some Projects'
  duration: '21m 12s'
---

# Season 6, Episode 222

Podcast Origins - Making Our Home Assistant Experience Better - Creating a List of Entities for AI to assist with automation - Short Term Gratification Is Not The Way To Go - Rebuilding With A…

Origins of our podcast

Home Assistant - <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/">https://www.home-assistant.io/</a>

Using recent experience to make the experience better

Creating a universal notification hub

Using ChatGPT to create automations

Creating a list of entities for use with AI

AI can then use the correct entities in scripts and automations

Creating another list so AI can suggest automations

Creating a list and alerts to let me know when batteries need changing or recharging

Short term gratification is what everyone wants when they first start

Long term planning is what you need with proper frameworks

Rebuilding software around a framework

Experience lets you think further ahead to plan better

Creating global variables

Rebuilding personal website 4 times

Don't spend time on over engineering when it's not needed

Commenting on your code and processes

AI understands comments and helps to work with code the way you want it to

 

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