Devialet's official app was abandoned. Claude and Codex reverse engineered the amplifiers' private protocol and built an iOS controller in about a day of work. Without AI, they'd never have started.
Result About a day of work, spread over a week
“The whole thing took about a day, spread out over a week or so.”
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They used Claude and Codex to reverse engineer the proprietary protocol for controlling their Devialet amplifiers, then build an iOS controller app to replace the manufacturer’s abandoned official app.
The whole project took about a day of work, spread out over a week or so, and they say they wouldn’t have even started it without AI, since they couldn’t have spared the time otherwise.
Have [your coding agent] help you reverse engineer the communication protocol of [a device whose official app or software has been abandoned], using packet captures or protocol documentation you can find, then build a replacement app or script that talks to the device directly.
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