gullywompr

This year, it became time for me to retire from my lifelong career in software development. Like most things, the situation was a dichotomy: I was tired of task lists and meetings and schedules and difficult people; but at the same time, I was having more fun making software than I ever had in my entire life, because of AI. I am one of those software developers that doesn't fear being replaced by AI (it can't, I'm retired; if I were a recent college grad I might see it differently) — to the contrary I am very grateful that code generators want to do the boring part of my job: writing the actual code. I was so conflicted, I couldn't just walk away from software development during this historic moment, so I quit my job but didn't quit making systems. Growing cannabis is a hobby of mine, and now in retirement I'd like to take the time to refine my craft. By now the same realization I had is hitting you - I could use AI to grow weed! So in my retirement I decided to learn Edge AI so that I could create a device for indoor cannabis cultivation that would analyze my grow in real time without ever loading images or other data to the internet. I live in a state where growing is legal, but still not at the federal level. So I worked up a small device that works only on the local LAN, reads from cameras and sensors inside the tent, and performs an ongoing analysis, with diagnosis of deficiencies, pest detection, disease, and stress conditions. I also taught it to react to events like going from seedling to veg, flip to 12, etc., dispensing best-of-breed advice (collected by scraping published research specific to growing cannabis). I'm going to just now run the first grow through it, hope it doesn't take over the world... Wish me luck! Cheers everybody! Curtis Olson Hamilton VA