Only two adults live in my house. I ended up buying one remote for each seat in the living room (which is rather more than two) and my wife still manages to lose them.
I ended up getting one more to keep next to my chair to lend her. I just make sure to get it back when her original is recovered.
It's actually gotten less common now because our kid is pretty good at finding them.
(If I sound resentful, I'm not. I love my wife. It just amazes me how that situation played out.)
On Thursday I attended a company-wide meeting wherein several coworkers tried (with mixed results) to persuade the rest of the company to start using AI. The primary way they did so was by listing incidents in which they'd found it useful.
One of the examples was (mildly paraphrased) "our other coworker is old, so he knows things like Tom Sawyer. He said he thought I was pulling a Tom Sawyer, trying to convince him to paint the fence."
I respect the person who was giving that speech, they seem very knowledgeable, but hearing that they had to ask AI what that meant was just upsetting.
That said, I guess one use for AI is deciphering idioms?
I was homeschooled. Once my mom brought me to visit a couple of geologists at their home. They had a collection of stones at their house and opened a few of them for me; at least 2-3 of them were geodes, rather than simply stone through, as they expected. Apparently this was unusual, so the trip stuck with me. I bet your son learned at least as much about rocks (and, to be fair, other stuff) through you!
I used to have a watch configured with the most common codes and equipped with an IR blaster. That seems a rather more manageable approach.