Your Agent Will Pick the Hackable One

> Your agent will pick the hackable one

> This changes how people buy hardware. Ask your agent which TV, router, or synth to get, and it will lean toward the one it can change, because that’s the one it can fix later. The buyer never has to think about openness for it to matter.

It's just sci-fi and has nothing to do how the current LLMs work.

> Ask your agent which TV, router, or synth to get, and it will lean toward the one it can change, because that’s the one it can fix later.

I have not found this to be true. I like the rest of the article and the principle behind it but the title is not backed up at all

> Most buyers won’t care about [replaceable firmware]. Their AI agents will, and more buying decisions are going to run through agents.

Citation needed.

AI agents don't have any goals of their own. They don't care about anything at all.

So when you ask an LLM to recommend a product, it's taking the things your prompt says are important to you, and combining them with professional reviews and user reviews it finds.

If you don't say that hackable is being important, and professional reviews and user reviews aren't bringing that up much either, then the LLM is going to totally ignore hackability.

So this post seems to be more about the author's personal wish, rather than based on how actual LLM's work.

The interesting thought to me is not (at all) that "my agent may pick the hackable one", but rather that LLMs will make it a lot easier to reverse-engineer stuff and actually own our devices.

> Then M-Vave did something uncommon for a hardware company. In October it published its own firmware as open source under GPLv3

They did it after the alternative firmwares were out of their control. What I take from that is that there is a big need to reverse engineer firmwares, because by defaults companies really don't want to open source them.

Ironic how the company released it as GPLv3. Like "we really wanted to keep it proprietary, but now that we feel like we should open source it, we really wouldn't want for a competitor to change it and keep their changes proprietary".

It won't for long, they're going to ratfuck the hell out of these models once they need to collect the advertising dollars... just like everything on the web that has come before it. Enjoy it while it lasts.

>This changes how people buy hardware. Ask your agent which TV, router, or synth to get, and it will lean toward the one it can change, because that’s the one it can fix later. The buyer never has to think about openness for it to matter.

No, it'll suggest which ever manufacturer has paid OpenAI or Anthropic for advertising

> Ask your agent which TV, router, or synth to get, and it will lean toward the one it can change, because that’s the one it can fix later.

What is that hackable TV that your agent found?

I the consumer would pick the modifiable one, and use agents to modify the closed ones, if needed.

THE HACKABLE WHAT????? I scream into the darkness as I flag and move on

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