How many vacuums is too many?
In a stunning demonstration of hubris and incompetence: a man tries to control his own robot so hard, that he accidentally controls 7,000 others.
Curious what his robot vacuum cleaner could do, our hero tried to run custom software on it. With a little help from AI coding tools, he managed to connect to the machine and start sending it commands. Thanks to a software design decision that can only be described as “optimistic”, the secret key that allowed to talk to his own robot was also shared between thousands of other devices — so every single one of his instruction was broadcast to the rather sizable fleet.
I guess that’s just the world we live in. We connect more things to the internet, we run code that we don’t understand aaand — some of the result is bound to be funny.
(Reddit)