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- Coding agents are being used by people to reverse-engineer and automate home devices, illustrating the impact of reduced code writing costs.
- Previously, reverse-engineering home devices was possible but rarely worth the effort due to low ROI and the burden of maintaining unstable APIs.
- Coding agents drastically lower the effort and cost of trying and failing, and reduce the psychological baggage of future maintenance.
- Recent articles include: Kimi K3 and the pelican benchmark (July 16), new GPT-5.6 family (Luna, Terra, Sol) (July 9), and sqlite-utils 4.0 with schema migrations (July 7).