Such a great example of the power of OpenAI’s Codex.
He showed Codex a photo of the chip of the MP3 player, which was having some problems.
Codex guided him to put the MP3 player into bootloader mode on a Mac.
In that mode the Mac can read the entire firmware (the player’s operating system) straight from the device’s flash memory. He ran the commands Codex gave him and the Mac dumped the full binary file.
He fed that binary back to Codex.
Codex analyzed the machine code, found the exact sections causing the problems, then generated a patched custom firmware with the fixes and gave it back to him.
problem solved.
