Edge-AI device that analyzes my cannabis grow, nothing leaves the LAN
A retired software developer learns Edge AI and builds a grow-tent device that analyzes his cannabis plants on the device itself — nothing leaves the house.
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Notes on retiring from a software career — and building an AI device for my grow tent that keeps everything in the house. This year, it became time for me to retire from my lifelong career in software development. Like most things, the situation was a dichotomy: I was tired of task lists and meetings and schedules and difficult people; but at the same time, I was having more fun making software than I ever had in my entire life, because of AI. I’m one of those software developers that doesn’t fear being replaced by AI — it can’t, I’m retired; if I were a recent college grad I might see it differently. To the contrary, I’m very grateful that code…from croplock.com
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