Domesticating AI: Why vibe coding feels like cheating
"I'm going to call it Yaffle." That was the final line of my June New Atlas article, Domesticating AI: It's not coming, it's already here. It was a throwaway remark after spending some time with Home Assistant's increasingly capable AI voice assistant, Nabu.
I’m ecstatic to report that Yaffle is now real and answers to "Hey Yaffle." The problem was that Yaffle first needed to learn its own name. I'd tried this before, and failed, and the result was simple: I stopped using it. "OK Nabu" never felt right.
Teaching an AI assistant a custom wake word sounds like the sort of project you'd expect to find in the hands of a machine learning engineer. TensorFlow, speech datasets, model training – not exactly the sort of thing you'd tackle over a quiet weekend. Which presented a problem. I'm not a software engineer. Nor, I suspect, will one be turning...
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