I love how easy AI makes it to hack devices that otherwise wouldn't be worth the time.

squarefoot 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I used Claude, back then when the free tier was usable, to port Linux on a obsolete, unsupported and undocumented board whose manufacturer didn't publish any info aside binary only Android images, which fortunately were enough to obtain some info.

This tickled my imagination and I wondered about a AI assisted reverse engineering platform with a complete build system in which the AI is connected to ports (serial console, gpio, i2c, spi, etc) normal physical switches (on/off, reset, etc) of the target board and a logical switch that can rotate among multiple SD cards either to the development PC and to the board so that the AI itself can download, build in parallel and test images and software freely offloading the most time consuming parts.

	▲	mtzaldo 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's the future
	▲	exe34 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What sort of debug/probing harness did you have? I find it hard to conceptualise, when nothing boots yet. Did you have serial output working right from the beginning? Or did you have to get that first and then everything else was possible?

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yjftsjthsd-h 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed. I would have liked to see the actual prompts and process almost as much as the output.