“We are going to see smaller software and hardware companies killed by competitors who used AI to steal their products and undercut them.”
One user had Claude Code strip 25 Xiaomi packages off his parents’ TV to kill a sponsored ad that played before Netflix. A guitar pedal maker says he decompiled three competitors’ products in 72 hours. The repo behind the craze passed 342,000 GitHub stars. Xiaomi earned the jailbreak, and the small shops that never shipped ads will pay for it.