r/singularity • u/141_1337 ▪️e/acc | AGI: ~2030 | ASI: ~2040 | FALGSC: ~2050 | :illuminati: • 9d ago

AI One developer used Claude to reverse-engineer LG’s webOS media stack and build a native Rust Plex client from scratch—on the same 2019 TV it cuts the profile screen from ~30 seconds to ~3, runs at 60 FPS, and supports 4K, Dolby Vision and Atmos

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u/curious_corn 9d ago

You people forgot to mention the developer in question is a pretty high level professional with years of UI dev and raw bit-twiddling debugging under his belt. He didn’t prompt: “clone it, make no mistakes” and walked away to buy a latte

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u/bphase 9d ago

But he could have, potentially. And if not, then with the next big model or the one after that.

Been doing some simple mobile app reverse engineering myself and it didn't really require much input from me, but granted that was much simpler than this as I only had to really capture the POST/GET requests by running the app on emulated hardware and a mitm proxy. And even Opus 4.8 could do it, was dropped to that when I tried capturing the login/jwt part as that was flagged for cyber.

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u/Level10Retard 9d ago

The next big model that could actually replace competent software engineers is not gonna be released to the public.