My Opinion on AI Vibe Coded Camera Firmware

After publishing my AI Is Causing Problems article, two people reached out to me to express their disagreement with my paragraph on AI vibe coded camera firmwares. Basically, people are using AI to hack and rewrite firmware to add new features and functions that the camera doesn’t actually have. It seems like the general consensus is that this is good, basically supercharging your camera, and ushering a new era of tech. Any camera can be anything you want it to be, as long as you have the “right” firmware uploaded. Personally, I think it’s really bad, and should be avoided. Let me explain. “When it comes to AI vibe coded camera firmware,” I stated in the article, “that’s super risky. It’s not so much if someone’s camera will become a permanent paperweight, it’s a matter of when and how many, and whether it will be yours. Personally, I wouldn’t load any unofficial third-party firmware into any of my cameras, the risk is much too large. Even if it seems to be working fine, you have no…

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