Claude helped build a Bluetooth phone finder after MDM disabled Find My
1X engineer Ben Zhang recovered his phone with the meter, then released a Swift tool refined across 13 Claude-coauthored commits.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: X
Why it matters
Zhang's phone finder shows where AI coding agents are immediately useful: creating narrow, situational tools whose economics never justified a conventional software product.
Ben Zhang (@un1c0rnioz), a robotics engineer at 1X, used Claude to build a Bluetooth signal meter after losing his phone in an office where mobile device management had disabled Apple's Find My service. Zhang said the meter took about a minute to generate and led him to the missing device as he walked around watching the signal strengthen.
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