| ▲ | revolvingthrow a day ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I reverse engineered almost all electronics I own. Does it have USB that does more than just charging? Connect it to a computer and let AI play with it. Unless it's heavily secured like a phone that's pretty much all you need to do. Making some old remote work with various devices? Simple. Dumping the entire state of Rodecaster and controlling it in any you want with software, or maybe a remote? Why not. Old printer no longer works with MacOS 27? Ask for new drivers and now it does. The printer 'debugging' was one of the funniest and most WTF situations I've been in lately. I used Claude for the drivers and was essentially used by it as a meat sock to diagnose what's happening. Was the text on each line progressively less visible, ie did grayscale work? How about quality between page 1 and 2, the first one should be lower DPI. Ok now unload the paper so I can see the error and add some handling for it. Good, now load paper again we'll check the duplex. If you are reasonably familiar with computers, it really is as simple as pointing a strong model at a device and burning some tokens. Feels like a fever dream, especially since I had very little idea about anything that has to do with hardware. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rmnclmnt 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes be able to give new life and maintain compatibility with old hardware and/or unsupported OSes is one of the recent positive aspects of agents with frontier models! Also managed to bring back compatibility old printer with Linux and even unsupported one working only over bluetooth! Before this era, you could imagine how it could work but would have rarely taken the time to do this grunt work. Now you ask, wait for a few minutes, do so meat proxy integration testing, iterate a few times and here you go. Brings some hope for sustainable computing! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | casualscience a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I've had some luck with this too. Every device you buy wants you install an app on your phone. Not if I can help it. Wish I could release the apps I've "made", but worry about DMCA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | antihero 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Why is the computer playing weird noises" "Claude is developing and testing a music app." "Oh." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 361994752 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I call this wetware mcp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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