Revisiting a Lost Art: A Clock That Never Loses Time
Five years ago, I built an ESP8266 clock that sets itself. It still runs today—so what changed now that AI can help us build hardware?
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I'm a senior software engineer, passionate about coding and smart home automation.
Five years ago, I built an ESP8266 clock that sets itself. It still runs today—so what changed now that AI can help us build hardware?
When an LLM fails a task, sometimes it's not a capability problem — it's a missing harness. Prompt Engineering is fading, Context Engineering is just a way station; what really shapes AI Agents is the system around the model.
After two months with OpenClaw and a deep dive into Hermes Agent's memory and learning system, the design philosophy gap between the two turned out to be much larger than expected. Writing this down for future reference.