A man made an old MacBook look at its own screen so its AI agent could improve the performance of his AMD graphics card in Linux.
A man made an old MacBook look at its own screen so its AI agent could improve the performance of his AMD graphics card in Linux.
Tom's Hardware tells about this.
Can't make this up...the MacBook is using its webcam to look at its screen in a mirror to improve AMD Radeon chip support in Omarchy. pic.twitter.com/pw5Yu0JVJ7
— Justin Schroeder (@jpschroeder) September 9, 2026
A driver is a program that helps Linux work properly with a video card. If something is wrong with it, the screen may display graphical errors or freeze. The image may even disappear altogether. So that the AI assistant can monitor this, the man placed a mirror in front of him. So now the agent sees the image on the display almost the same way a developer sitting in front of a laptop would see it. Thanks to this, he can make changes, start the system and check if the screen looks normal.
This experiment was shared by developer Justin Schroeder. He is working on Omarchy, a version of Linux that is being created with the expectation of active use of AI agents. The user can choose an agent, and it can help change the system, find the causes of failures or work with code. In particular, Omarchy supports Claude Code, Codex and other tools.
For example, if a program throws an error, Omarchy can pass the information about the failure to an AI agent to try to find the cause. The developers describe the system as Linux “for the agent age.”
Previously, dev.ua wrote about a similar experiment: the developer created "eyes" for Claude Code — gave the AI agent access to the camera so that it could see physical devices or displays and check the results of its work.
