[petercooper]

Not as cool as this, but I had a fun Claude Code experience when I asked it to look at my Bluetooth devices and do something "fun". It discovered a cheap set of RGB lights in my daughter's room (which I had no idea used Bluetooth for the remote - and not secured at all) and made them do a rainbow effect then documented the protocol so I could make my own remote control if needed.

[qingcharles]

Opus 4.7 finally figured out how to get my Logitech mouse paired with the receiver properly, which 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 could not do lol.

[anbotero]

Do you recall what it did? This sounds interesting, as I too have had some issues with the receiver from time to time.

[hypercube33]

I asked Claude Opus 4.5 to start trying to find undocumented API stuff for our endpoint management software so I could automate remediations and cut service desk calls and it found two I haven't seen before after trying for an hour. Since it's written in .net I'm fairly sure I could have told it to decompile it and find more fairly easily too.

[pseudohadamard]

I'm not even sure how cool this one is. It looks more like some experienced pentesters used Codex to vibe-code an exploit:

  In the course of driving Codex to the final destination, it definitely was about to go off-track if we did not steer it back immediately.

[ceejayoz]

I am not sure "fun" is the right term here!

[luxuryballs]

of all the benign technical possibilities this is actually pretty fun

[ceejayoz]

I'm not sure I see "an AI can find insecure unknown bluetooth devices and compromise them" as entirely benign. I shiver to think how many such devices are probably in my house.

[sodality2]

I'm not sure I'd use "compromise" at all - these (or the ones I have) are purposefully designed with zero authentication or pairing, the ones that use apps are already "compromised" in the sense that I can walk past any windowsill with one in it, open it, and it will immediately connect to it. I really don't mind if someone walking by were to change the LED color patterns

[luxuryballs]

with LLMs able to pump out surplus code for anyone I really think the future of a dystopian sci-fi where you carry a device that can hack random objects around you is starting to materialize