I forced Claude to be negative, and it turned out to be positive
…assistant" behavior and replaced it with a more skeptical mindset. The goal wasn't to make Claude rude or negative for its own sake. I wasn't looking for an AI that…
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I ditched cloud smart home devices for local control, and my house finally works
Jasmine Mannan May 23, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I connected Claude to my local files and tools, and it went from chatbot to actual assistant
…Stop using AI just like a chatbot The days of using AI as a Google Search replacement are long, long gone. With features like Cowork and Connectors, AI has turned into something…
I tested Claude Code against 3 open-source alternatives, and one came surprisingly close
…GitHub Copilot, introduced in 2021, was the pioneering AI coding assistant that sparked the mainstream adoption of AI in software development. Built on OpenAI's Codex, it planted the seed for the…
I gave Claude Cowork access to my Home Assistant config, and it unlocked automations I didn't know were possible
…And for that, I'll always have an LLM connected to my Home Assistant, even if I'm not using it to replace voice assistants with locally-run options. The time saving…
Your smart home needs both an ESP32 and Raspberry Pi 5, not one or the other
…pairing The ESP32’s price and volume of community projects, ranging from VPN gateways to AI assistants , make it tempting to push the microcontroller beyond its limits. I fell for that trap…
I paid for Google AI Pro expecting one subscription to replace three — here's why I'm still using all of them
…Sign in to your XDA account I expected to consolidate my AI stack after subscribing to Google AI Pro, thinking it could act as one subscription to replace three tools (Claude, Perplexity…
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini still have a critical UI flaw, and it's not an easy one to fix
…With time, however, it became clear that the future of AI assistants wasn't a textual conversation. Even after the advent of dedicated coding and designing environments and AI agents, we've…
3 Google TV settings I changed after the Gemini update that made my TV actually useful
…The AI will help you ask more detailed queries, rather than the basic questions you can ask Google Assistant right now. For example, you can ask for a lighter version of an…
Google's free Gemma 4 model runs on hardware you probably already own
…RAG, coding assistance 31B Dense 24 GB 34 GB 62–80 GB High-quality generation The 31B Dense model is the flagship and comfortably scores well on the AI benchmarks used industry…