Hardware-level interaction is the future for general agents, not ADB.
Summary
The author argues that hardware-level interaction (HDMI capture + USB HID touch simulation) is superior to ADB-based automation for building OS-agnostic general-purpose AI agents, and introduces their project Aiden using a cheap RV1106 dev board.
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