Reverse-engineering is cheap now
Simon Willison discusses how the reduced cost of coding agents has made reverse-engineering home devices more accessible. He argues that lower development costs reduce the psychological burden of maintaining unstable or undocumented APIs.
Why it matters
This highlights a shift in consumer technology where AI-driven automation is lowering the barrier to entry for hardware hacking and home automation.
I keep hearing anecdotes from people who used coding agents to reverse-engineer and automate devices in their homes.
I think this is an interesting illustration of the impact of the reduced cost of writing code.
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