Reverse Engineering Has Become Cheap
Coding agents have drastically reduced the cost of reverse-engineering and automating home devices, making it worthwhile even for unstable APIs. The lower effort and maintenance burden change the ROI equation.
Simon Willison reports anecdotes of people using coding agents to reverse-engineer and automate home devices. Previously, the ROI was poor due to high effort and maintenance risks from unstable APIs. Coding agents lower the effort and cost of trying and failing, making it cheap to write and maintain such code, or even discard and rewrite it.
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- ROI = Return on Investment — Возврат инвестиций
- API = Application Programming Interface — Программный интерфейс приложения
Source: Simon Willison —
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