Our Office Avatar pt 1: The office is talking shit again
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Published by harper.blog (Harper Reed) (T1 source). The original is at https://harper.blog/2024/03/26/our-office-avatar-pt-1-the-office-is-talking-shit-again/.
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SummaryHarper Reed describes using Home Assistant, office sensors (temperature, CO2, door, occupancy), and an LLM to build an "office avatar" that announces environmental states via a Google Home speaker and Slack, evolving from simple alerts to personality-driven LLM-powered commentary.
Why it mattersFirsthand walkthrough of a sensor-to-LLM-to-speaker office stack with named tools, baseline comparison, and replicable patterns for ambient workspace intelligence.
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