In brief – A developer used Claude Code to disable 25 Xiaomi packages on his parents’ TV, and his open-source cleanyourtv project now lists tested setups for 107 TV models from 37 brands. – The tools use Android’s built-in debugging bridge to switch apps off rather than delete…
em, so a restore script can undo every change. – TV makers earn money from ads and viewing data, a practice Texas challenged in December 2025 lawsuits against Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL. Smart TV owners are pointing AI agents at their living-room sets and ordering them to rip out the sponsored ads, the tracking software and the sluggish home screens that manufacturers ship by default
The trend exploded on X over the weekend, and it already has a name: vibe coding your TV. The most-shared case involved a Xiaomi TV owned by a developer’s parents. Gathin T. posted on Saturday that the set showed a sponsored ad before anyone could even reach Netflix, so he gave Claude Code the model number and let it work.
The agent found the TV on his home Wi-Fi, switched off 25 Xiaomi software packages and wrote a brand-new home screen that, as he put it, “looks like an Apple TV now lol.” Vibe coded my parents’ TV this afternoon! It was showing a sponsored ad before you could even get to Netflix. Gave Claude Code the model number, it found the TV on wifi, removed 25 Xiaomi packages and wrote a new launcher.