Jailbroken Kindle + an AI agent makes a great e-reader, sparking 'growth over craft' debate
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-10
Tim Blumberg jailbroke his Kindle and spent 60 minutes with the AI agent Astra to turn it into a genuinely good e-reader, concluding the hardware was always capable — the shortfall was corporate inertia. Jonah Bennett's repost draws the broader lesson: tech products aren't 'handcrafted'; growth is what companies optimize for.
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