Comment by youraveragedev_

bought a bunch of shithole device for aliexpress that are color LED lights, some smart home stuff and etc.

I didn't really wanted any sketchy companies getting telemetry across my network.

Plugged them all in via USB-C and left codex (this was with gpt-5.3-codex) running a whole night just saying you can use decompile tools, installs whatever the hell you want, then for each device reverse out an API and write some good documentation about it.

left it on at night and just ditched it, didn't really expect much.

woke up the next morning and found out that I can use the terminal to control my 3$ color smart light bulb now and codex has proposed me to also completely rip out the manufacture's shitshow software with telemetry and replace it with our own which codex had a plan for.