A new Home Assistant user posted 14 screenshots of a phone dashboard made in their first week, with an illustrated house, a floor plan that lights up occupied rooms, and panels for devices including a car and an oven. In replies, the poster says Claude designed the dashboard through the regular browser chat (no direct connection to their system), that they wired up the devices themselves, kept passwords and other secrets out of the chat, and stayed within a $20-a-month plan.

The thread splits. Some argue it shows why AI is here to stay, letting a beginner reach in a week what took others years; one of the top replies is surprised there isn't more anti-AI pushback. Others say the design looks good but makes odd choices on closer inspection, and prefer building it themselves with AI only as a helper. About 1,800 upvotes and 500 comments in a 386,000-member community.