Let Me Own It

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:54:36 +0000

Yesterday, I pointed Codex at my Amazon Fire Stick.

It gave me a cleaner home screen, removed or hid a bunch of Amazon cruft, and put the streaming apps I care about up front. The home-screen advertisements were gone. The device became something I actually wanted to use.

I already owned the hardware. Now it felt a little more like it.

That small improvement is part of what makes AI agents interesting to me. They give us a way to push back on the daily aggravations we’ve learned to accept from our devices. You know the ones: the screen full of things somebody wants to sell you, the feature buried behind somebody else’s priorities, the perfectly usable hardware you start thinking about replacing because its software is so unpleasant.

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Let Me Own It