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# Intro
- URL: https://blog.blackbeardit.com/intro/
- Published: 2026-03-18T18:30:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-18T23:57:37.000Z
- Author: Captain Blackbeard
- Tags: personal-story, about

Here we are! 🎉 The first post of The Great AI Experiment... So I guess we start at the beginning. What is the beginning? Do we talk about the algorithms built in the 1970s but we didn't have the compute power? 🤔 Do we start at the birth of the internet and everything becoming connected? 🌐 Maybe we start in November 2022, the year ChatGPT came to market. An AI chatbot that could answer seemingly any question! What a year... As of this writing, that was almost 4 years ago. Now look where we are today, agentic coding, agents, people building autonomous agents... or at least on cron jobs 😅. It's absolutely wild the pace this is moving at! 🚀

At such a wild pace, what is even the point of writing this down? Starting a blog of all things in the year 2026! Do people even still read blogs? 📖 Maybe your AI agent will and it will just give you the bullet points or come back "This guy isn't worth your time" haha 🤖. At least maybe for some of you (Hi mom! 👋) you'll at least start to understand how my brain works. It is very scattered, probably the ADHD hard at work in me 🧠. Or the dyslexia kicking in at all times. 😵‍💫 I've heard people say this just makes me think differently than others. Maybe that is true... Maybe it's an excuse. What was I typing about? Oh ya! The point of this blog! Okay, let's get into it. ⚓

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So as I type this I am oh say about 3 hours into a build session. An AI has written about 3000 lines of code for a Home Assistant App so I can gamify 🎮 my kids chores. A little story telling, a market place, some characters and a nightly story. And let me tell you, I could deploy this now and be done with it as is. Oh there are some bugs 🐛 to work out and AI didn't get it the first shot. But it's already better then some Add-ons I have tried in the past. And that's just it, I haven't spent 3 hours in front of my computer typing to AI saying "Do this", "Do that", "This is wrong, fix it!". I have spent 3ish hours dictating to my note taking app on my phone my thoughts 🎙️, an AI chat bot clean up and organize my thoughts, told the AI to do some research on how to build Home Assistant add-ons to best practices, had it build an ADR (Architectural Design Record), and then put the plan together to deploy. Meanwhile in between all that I have cleaned, played with the kids 👨‍👧‍👦, got dinner... You know, lived my life! ☀️

But that is also not what this blog is about. This blog is about an experiment, an experiment in AI! 🧪 The question everyone is asking right now, "Will AI take my job?!", *that* is what this blog is about. And let me tell you future faithful reader! Right now the answer is probably not... Unless of course you suck at your job! Then 100%, it's gonna crush you! 💀 Okay okay, all joking aside, I don't think it's ready. Our tale actually starts about 4 weeks ago. I have been running a home lab for a long time now 🏴‍☠️. It's a place for me to experiment, play with new things, add irrelevant stuff to my resume and a general playground for me. But my hardware is getting old. So it was time for a rebuild 🔧. Plus I had done something to basically break everything and I needed to move all that gear out of the living room as it was a point of contention between me and the love of my life ❤️. Turns out network gear and extra computers is not a great focal point of a living room! Especially with a year-and-a-half-old running around pushing any button with a light on it 👶. Who knew!

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And so my friends! Here is the cliff hanger that will leave you coming back for more! 🪝 I moved my network gear and mini PCs to a hall way closet (And no I did not think about ventilation so now I have to shut everything down, cut a hole in the celling and install an exhaust fan 🥵) and installed my hypervisor (another side note for my friends with campaigns, leaving a hallway closet door open so your gear can get fresh air is also not an acceptable setup as it turns out, so, think ahead! 🤦). Where was I... Oh ya, I installed my hypervisor and I haven't touched it since. Okay, I did run an update by hand, old habits die hard 😏. But seriously, I have not touched it. I have not deployed the now 30+ apps and HA Postgres database or looked at a single log. So how do *you* think it has gone? 🤷

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By the way, I am shutting down for the night and my AI just said to me "All saved — local MEMORY and P2BDB both updated. Good night, Blackbeard. We built something incredible today — a full D&D family chore system with AI bedtime stories delivered by voice. The Chapter A→B flow fix is ready to test first thing tomorrow. Sleep well, brave adventurer." 

And you know what, it's not wrong. Good night reader! 🌙