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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
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Product manager. Microsoft, Tableau, Elastic. I’m on sabbatical, using the time to build AI systems end to end instead of reading about them: agent orchestration, vision, speech, tool use, evaluation harnesses, local and frontier models working together. Each project here comes with a deep dive into what I built, how it works, and why I made the calls I made.

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