{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI After Dark ","title":"How AI Could Turn 100,000 Homes Into A Power Plant","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8c3e3964\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3857,"description":"Matt Robillard from SmartAC joins Alex on AI After Dark to explain why he walked into a company with product-market fit but antiquated tech stack and immediately started rewriting everything with AI at its core. He breaks down the difference between horizontal process automation that Service Titan can eventually replicate versus vertical intelligence modeling the actual thermodynamics of HVAC systems that nobody else can touch, why clean energy is magical thinking constrained by the Shockley-Queisser limit and Betz limit, and how hiring the best AI talent in HVAC meant recruiting from SpaceX, Databricks and Perplexity by selling real-world impact over another CRM with AI slapped on. The conversation reveals why OEMs surprisingly embrace their solution instead of fearing disruption, his controversial take that LLMs are stochastic parrots not true intelligence, and how the marginal cost of code going to zero is pure hype when production systems at scale still require senior engineers who deeply understand customer pain points.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n\n00:00 CES takeaways and hardware semiconductor relationships\n01:53 Joining SmartAC post product-market fit with legacy tech\n07:15 Data platform challenges and ML model development\n12:14 Vertical AI defensibility versus horizontal automation\n18:26 Alignment with Josh and commercial-product pairing\n24:17 Replatforming effort and organizational design overhaul\n29:27 Recruiting top AI talent from SpaceX and Databricks\n36:03 Development velocity changes and junior engineer growth\n41:01 AGI possibility and stochastic parrots debate\n48:21 Controversial clean energy physics constraints opinion\n56:42 Smart home promises and Tesla-style behavioral nudges\n01;01;10 VC organizational design mistakes over two years\n01;05;13 Who else should be on AI After Dark\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_io\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io\nhttps://www.facebook.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.instagram.com/collide.io...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/c0HwyU-IZhsvyIYSsSdOUiGAVx9bBJQ8wi3A6OCGZVU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NjRl/MjJmNmQyM2Q5OTAy/Y2U4OTIyMWM4ZjMy/NzMzMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}