Notes on IoT, Smart Home & AI

Agents can write code, but autonomous software development is not a code-generation problem. It is a control-systems problem: designing feedback loops, independent verification, repair, and measured autonomy. Agents already write most of the code at frontier companies, yet no system in the world runs the path “idea → code → production → operations” without a human. This article argues that the bottleneck is not model intelligence but the engineering of feedback loops, and derives four design rules for an autonomous full-cycle system. The frame comes from reliability theory and cybernetics of the 1950s-70s — where “build reliable systems out of unreliable components” was solved once already — combined with the LLM-agent research of 2023-2026, where it is being solved a second time.