alt Hacker News>> I travel quite a bit. Who was going to tell me whether the plants looked healthy? Certainly not my children.
Why not? Why do you keep your family members away from your fantastic project? I would have loved to see something like "my younger kid noticed the leaf ...", "My wife watered the plants ..." etc.
Please remove all tech stuff from your garden. Manage it as a simple human. Let other humans of your family also take part in it.
While your project is technically awesome, you have removed all human factor from it, including yourself. You are letting the AI agents invade the last remaining turfs of the human tribes - the garden work.
You don't need a perfect, highly instrumented garden. That was never the need. Imprecision, lack of full metrics etc are perfectly natural. That's not achievement. That's vulgarity of pouring tons of tech into something natural as a garden, just because you can.
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Why not? OP seems to enjoy it. Everyone have the right to "tend their own garden" as they want.
Let people have some fun, it's not like he is pushing people to abandon manually taking care of a garden.
> Let other humans of your family also take part in it.
Not everyone wants to take care of other people’s plants. Maybe he already tried to involve his kids and it turned out they were just not interested.
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Jeez, this person is just combining their hobbies into something they apparently think is fun and you’re resting the whole world on their shoulders. Relax.
> Why not? Why do you keep your family members away from your fantastic project?
Kids these days want to play on their sega and listen to hip hop.
I agree with the sentiment that the human aspect of gardening can be fun, and personally I would not want to automate my own plant maintenance. But on the other hand, perhaps the author finds automation fun. Who are we to decide how they should do their own garden?