A developer has taken to social media to praise his revitalized smart TV, optimized to work better-than-new thanks to Claude Code. Mert Cobanov, currently a Senior AI Engineer at Refik Anadol Studio, chatted with other Twitter/X users about his "unbelievable" fast and smooth TV experience (machine translation). Moreover, the dev has created a Clean up your Android TV site to help others implement the same optimizations.
Sadly, I understand Cobanov’s inspiration for smart TV debloating. TV makers often offer screens with laggardly processors, meager amounts of RAM, and slow storage. When new, they may already be sluggish performers, but after app and Android TV updates (if you actually get OS updates), system performance can get even worse. This makes a market for set-top boxes and HDMI sticks, such as the Amazon Fire TV line. However, that’s extra complexity and more devices/remotes for end users. Not ideal.
