The main reasons I don't have "smart" devices in my house:

1. They introduce new and fascinating failure modes that never happened with the old, dumb devices (e.g. if your router fails you lose the ability to control your lights).

2. They demand human attention at the slightest provocation (e.g. the microwave beeps loudly forever when your food is done, every app on your phone insists on interacting with you whenever the company would like to upsell you something, etc.)

Item 2 above is what TFA is about. Yes you can often turn this shit off, but that's not the point. The point is you shouldn't have to. Useful technology should never call attention to itself in the manner of someone with narcissistic personality disorder.

But what about emergency situations? Glad you asked. Many airplane crashes in modern aircraft have happened because of "warning buzzer overload" which happens when one important system on the aircraft fails and then causes a cascade of secondary warnings, while giving the pilot no insight as to the root cause. A true AI assistant would reason about such situations and guide the pilot toward the root solution.

A true coding assistant would do the same kind of reasoning about program errors and suppress multipage error dumps in favor of flagging the root issue.