2026-05-29
The Real Moat Isn't Software
Everyone in AI is fighting over software wrappers. The real moat is hardware: getting AI out of the chatbox and into the physical world. I built a 5-node camera network for $500 to start solving it.
Everyone in AI is fighting over software wrappers. The real moat is hardware: getting AI out of the chatbox and into the physical world. I built a 5-node camera network for $500 to start solving it.
I built an AI assistant that did everything, killed it, and realized the entire personal AI space is missing the same thing. It's not features. It's memory.
I put cameras in every room to give my AI eyes. Five Pi nodes, an RTX 5090, and a persistent memory layer later — here's what the observation stack looks like.
Why I built my personal site as a terminal, and what's coming next.