AI agents port HiBy R1 music player to Linux 7.3

The author argues that AI agents can make maintaining old hardware economically viable by significantly reducing the human labor required for software rewrites. Using a cheap children's music player as a case study, the author used AI agents over three weeks to rewrite its software down to the Linux kernel and upstream the drivers. The author suggests that the environmental cost of the datacenter energy used is comparable to manufacturing a single new phone, and that such efforts yield net savings when applied broadly. Open article →