Greg Kienast — a custom AV and smart-home integrator in the Chicago suburbs who builds AI agents, robots, and smart homes. Projects, writing, and experiments.https://gregkienast.com/https://gregkienast.com/blog/speed-is-the-only-thing-that-matters/https://gregkienast.com/blog/speed-is-the-only-thing-that-matters/I'm obsessed with speed — and right now, in business, I think it's the only thing that matters. Here's why, where it goes wrong, and the one idea that turns raw speed into progress: vector navigation.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gregkienast.com/blog/software-is-dead/https://gregkienast.com/blog/software-is-dead/In February, Mark Cuban pronounced software dead. Elon Musk went further. Here's what the headlines miss — and what a small business owner should actually do about it.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gregkienast.com/blog/ai-tilting-the-field/https://gregkienast.com/blog/ai-tilting-the-field/Big companies used to win on structure — more staff, more systems, more room for waste. After a year building AI into my own shop, I'm convinced that edge is eroding.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gregkienast.com/blog/can-my-rover-skip-slam/https://gregkienast.com/blog/can-my-rover-skip-slam/A delivery robot in a hospital got me wondering: do indoor robots really need SLAM and LIDAR, or can an LLM navigate with just cameras? Here's the experiment I'm running to find out.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gregkienast.com/blog/drop-the-a-from-ai/https://gregkienast.com/blog/drop-the-a-from-ai/It's just intelligence. And critically, it's yours.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gregkienast.com/blog/future-of-ai-for-small-business/https://gregkienast.com/blog/future-of-ai-for-small-business/For years, saving time meant spending money and saving money meant spending time. AI broke that trade-off — here's what it looks like in a real small business.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT