I plugged my old Android into Claude Code for 10 minutes. 6 agents found a flashlight app that opened my camera 214 times while the screen was off
no antivirus caught it. it's been on the phone since 2019
I made 1 prompt that does the whole audit:
first understand what's actually on your phone:
• apps keep permissions you gave them years ago. a flashlight asking for CAMERA + ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION looks normal in the list and nobody re-checks it
• Android logs every camera open with a timestamp. Claude cross-checked them against screen state: 214 opens with the screen OFF, GPS attached to 187 of them
• the files were saved in a hidden .cache folder. not in your gallery, so you never see them
• the app had a service running since boot and sent 4.1 MB to a remote server that night
here's how to set it up:
1 → turn on USB debugging on the old phone, plug it in, open Claude Code
2 → paste the prompt below. it splits into 6 agents: chief, fs-scan, perms, netstat, procs, events
3 → they read 214,880 files and all 61 apps in parallel. you watch it live
4 → anything weird gets flagged with proof: which permission, when it fired, where the data went
5 → Claude revokes camera + location and uninstalls it with one adb command each. the whole run cost me $0.58
6 → the step everyone skips: Settings → Privacy → Permission manager → Camera → "Allow only while using"
check your old phone before you sell it or hand it to your kid
full prompt below ↓
i stopped picking the best ai. i made 6 of them share one brain and asked it to build itself a body
chatgpt + claude + grok + gemini + jev + deepseek
no 3d model. no blender. no stock textures. one shared brain and a browser tab
who does what:
> claude - the hands. writes every line of code
> chatgpt - the language. turns the idea into a plan
> gemini - the eyes. checks every frame
> deepseek - the search. digs up how real mantises move
> grok - the feed. reads X 24/7
> jev - the judge. only says yes or no in 240 ms
what came out:
628 hull plates, 5,024 rivets
2,405 glass facets in the eyes
12 hydraulic pistons that move with the joints
it snaps itself together from an exploded view, walks, strikes and takes off
40 seconds. 2,408 frames. rendered in 6.5 minutes
one tab = one smart tool
one brain = a mantis that builds itself
Claude Code built me a 3D mechanical octopus. 242 hull plates, over 4,000 rivets, 352 suckers and not a single 3D model
it's one HTML file. no Blender, no textures, no assets. every plate, rivet and gear is placed by three.js code
how it's built:
> 8 arms, each a chain of 22 links that get thinner toward the tip, so every arm ends in a curl
> the eyes get the most detail: 28 armour blocks around a rotating iris and a horizontal slit that opens like a real octopus pupil
> it crawls in a wave, one arm after another. in 28 seconds the arms hit the ground 71 times, and every hit leaves dust and sucker marks
> in x-ray the hull turns to glass and 176 nodes inside the arms light up one by one
> at the end it releases a cloud of ink and burrows back into the salt
the sound comes from the same timeline. every thud you hear is an arm touching down
before recording, Claude checked its own work: one still per shot, then a count of dark detail pixels against the reference. it came out 1.32x denser
28 seconds, 1,680 frames, all rendered in a browser
what should it build next?
wired 3 ais into one loop and skipped the 2 freelancers i was about to hire
i had a plan. 1 developer, 1 researcher. $9,600 for 6 weeks. one small app that fixes wrong dates in your photo library after you switch from Android to iPhone
instead i gave 3 ai tools 1 job each:
> Grok - the researcher. reads X all night and pulls every complaint about broken photo dates
> Claude Code on Opus 5.5 - the builder. plans every step, writes the code, runs the tests
> Jev - the judge. can't write a single line. only says yes or no in 240 ms
none of them talk to me. Grok drops what it finds into 1 shared folder, Claude builds from it, Jev checks the result and sends it back if it's wrong
the first thing Jev rejected was Claude's own checker. one source for a date wasn't enough, so the rule became 2: the EXIF date plus the file or the chat the photo came from
first night:
2,140 posts scanned on X
37 different ways people lost their photo dates
18 lines in the checker, 0 issues from the linter
4 times Jev said no before it said yes
1 app shipped on a $3 domain
by 7:00 am - 96 signups, 11 paying users, $99
2 freelancers - $9,600
3 agents - $0.15 for the checker, about $6 for the whole night
for a year i used ai like a search box. 1 question, 1 answer, then i did the rest myself
now every agent has 1 job, they share 1 folder, and the one that can't write code decides when it's done
which job would you hand to an agent first?
i connected Claude and Jev and gave them one job: build an AI agent that’s a bumblebee. it came back with 4,000+ parts and not a single 3D model.
it started as a dumb experiment. Jev is great at making fast decisions and terrible at writing code. Claude is the opposite. so i wired them into a loop.
Claude builds. Jev looks at the render and decides what’s wrong. Claude fixes it. repeat.
round 1 was a toy. smooth white balls, fuzz like a hedgehog, 6 legs tangled in a knot. Jev’s verdict in 240 ms: “too smooth. no visible mechanism. legs unreadable.”
round 2 Claude rebuilt the chest out of 30 armor plates. Jev flagged that it still looked like a ball, so Claude cut glass windows into some plates so you can see the gears spinning inside.
round 3 Jev said it didn’t read as a bee anymore. Claude added fuzz on the neck, amber bands on the abdomen and cables running from the head to the body.
by round 4, this is what’s inside:
30 armor plates, each with its own rivets, seams and vents
14 gears in the chest, 6 more along the spine
eye turrets with 8 hex nuts and a lens that tracks
legs with wheel joints, springs, pistons and rubber feet
wings with a frame, veins and honeycomb panels
no Blender. no assets. every rivet is a line of code.
and that’s still not the craziest part.
the bee runs itself like an agent. Jev picks the next move, Claude executes it: open the optics, drop the wings, crack the chest, split the abdomen, explode, rebuild, lock onto a target. the dashboard reads from the same model, so when the wings come off, the wingbeat falls from 230 Hz to 0.
Jev never wrote a single line of code. it just kept saying what was wrong until there was nothing left to fix.
a year ago this was a week for a 3D artist and a motion designer.
today it’s 2 models and 4 rounds.
save this so you don’t lose it ↓
@Scrooge_mm And she said most of it was made up. She claimed one paper even offered a stranger money to invent a story about her. Would you have stayed quiet or gone on TV like she did?