> brute force all possible combinations

Somewhat less impressive than I was expecting. The wire idea is neat though.

I felt the opposite. Sometimes figuring out a clever way to make the “dumb” thing possible is very impressive.

Human lockpickers use feedback when picking. I'm wondering if a bot could do the same - e.g. measuring the travel distance to find a binding pin, or the resistance to moving the wire?

The next step is to train an ML model on all videos of the lockpicking lawyer and it'll get a click out of one, three is binding every time.