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Did a developer use Claude to rebuild a parents’ smart TV UI, reaching tens of thousands of GitHub stars?

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Reported on r/singularity as a single-project case study with ~34,800 GitHub stars; not the earlier TechCrunch roundup on AI agents stripping smart-TV ads.

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    An r/singularity post says a developer used Claude to strip ads and replace a parents’ TV interface; eight days later the project had about 34,800 GitHub stars and configurations for roughly 300 TV models. A single-project case study, not the earlier TechCrunch roundup on AI agents stripping smart-TV ads.

    Source: r/singularity
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