Kinetic for My House: What Building with Claude Taught Me About Intent
Part of my day job at Cisco was once Kinetic for Cities: orchestrating sensors, networks and data at the scale of a city. A house-scale version of it was my quiet dream. Illustrative mockup built for this post 🙂 From a Pi to a platform What started a year ago with a Raspberry Pi and a few sensors grew into a dedicated server, a plethora of sensors, smart displays, and a web of automations, workflows and API integrations holding it all together. Somewhere along the way I started building with Claude, and the pace changed completely. It stopped feeling like a tool Work I'd scoped in months landed in hours. Edge cases I hadn't even reached yet came back already handled. It worked straight against the codebase, pushed changes out to the panels, re-ran the tests, and emulated the scenarios I couldn't easily stage myself. It started feeling like a team: engineer, developer, tester, even an electrician on call at 1am when I finally had time to tinker. Knowing what I want...