Teaching an AI Agent to Talk to a Light Bulb (and Why I Had to Get Up From My Desk)

Teaching an AI Agent to Talk to a Light Bulb (and Why I Had to Get Up From My Desk) I just shipped a PR that made a pile of stock-firmware Sengled W12-N15 bulbs reliably re-bind to a self-hosted MQTT broker for Home Assistant with no firmware flashing, no soldering, no physical mods. The fix itself is small (one file, ~120 lines of Python in SengledTools ). The interesting part is how it got debugged: a back-and-forth between a coding agent and a human who kept having to leave the chair to walk