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The AI wrote the patch for my solar uploads. The fix idea was mine.

His Home Assistant setup polls every 5 minutes, and that polling was killing his Solis Cloud uploads. Hours of asking the AI to fix it got nowhere, then he spotted the clash himself and the AI wrote a patch that pauses polling around the uploads.

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How it works

  1. He asks the AI for hours to fix the dead Solis Cloud uploads
  2. The AI gets nowhere
  3. He spots that Home Assistant polls every 5 minutes
  4. The AI writes a patch that pauses polling around the uploads

Why it’s worth knowing

The clash was timing, not code. His home setup polled every 5 minutes and stepped on his solar uploads, and the AI only wrote the patch after he found that himself.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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