Vaibhav Sisinty(@VaibhavSisinty):Someone on Reddit reverse-engineered their LG TV because the Plex app took 30 seconds to load Built an entire native Plex client from scratch using Claude Code, Opus, and Fable. Started in C, moved to Rust, ended up building his own OpenGL UI framework along the way Same TV. Same hardware. Profile picker now loads in 3 seconds instead of 30. Runs at 60 fps. Supports 4K, Dolby Vision, Atmos. Fully open source One person. One TV he was annoyed with. AI tools doing the work of an entire engineering team firmware reverse engineering, media playback, GPU profiling, shader optimization, UI architecture, all of it

2026.10.08 07:53

Someone on Reddit reverse-engineered their LG TV because the Plex app took 30 seconds to load Built an entire native Plex client from scratch using Claude Code, Opus, and Fable. Started in C, moved to Rust, ended up building his own OpenGL UI framework along the way Same TV. Same hardware. Profile picker now loads in 3 seconds instead of 30. Runs at 60 fps. Supports 4K, Dolby Vision, Atmos. Fully open source One person. One TV he was annoyed with. AI tools doing the work of an entire engineering team firmware reverse engineering, media playback, GPU profiling, shader optimization, UI architecture, all of it