Wife · CEO
Final executive authority
Final executive authority over household reality, budgets, priorities, and whether any of this was a good idea.
Has veto power. Uses it wisely.The increasingly unreasonable department
Meet the Team
The people, assistants and chaos agents behind this increasingly unreasonable smart-home project.
Same people. Slightly smarter home. Questionable escalation path.
Me · Owner / Final Authority
Scope keeper, button pusher
Sets scope, decides what gets built, and approves anything that touches production.
Still asking “is this worth automating?”ChatGPT · Advisor
Second opinion department
Architecture, design review, prompts, sanity checks, and occasionally stopping the project from becoming completely ridiculous.
Generally in favour of fewer mysteries.Minion · Codex
Cloud engineer with a keyboard
Cloud engineer. Writes code, runs tests, reviews repos, and somehow turns chaos into functioning systems.
Will ask for the logs.Peasant · LocalLM
Evidence mule, proudly local
Local 4B research assistant. Cheap, slow, good at retrieval and evidence grunt work, and comprehensively tested as not an autonomous software engineer.
Knows where the document probably is. Read Peasant's hardware story →Son · Chaos & Junior Technical Department
Unplanned acceptance testing
Generates unpredictable requirements, tests things in ways nobody planned for, and occasionally drives feature development.
Feature request density: impressive.