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Why I Swapped InfluxDB for TimescaleDB – The LLM Tax

Why I Swapped InfluxDB for TimescaleDB – The LLM Tax

For years, InfluxDB has been the data backbone of my Home Assistant setup. With the native Home Assistant integration and Grafana, I had my dashboards dialed in. While FluxQL was a bit of a learning curve, I was able to…
April 24, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Home Automation
PM by trade. Builder by nature.

I spent the last few years building AI systems end to end: agent orchestration, vision, speech, tool use, evaluation harnesses, local and frontier models working together. Most of it is running at the house. Each project here comes with a deep dive into what I built, how it works, and why I made the calls I made. Product manager. Microsoft, Tableau, Elastic, now GitLab.

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