The company’s new agentic developer tools are giving the discontinued smart displays a second life as a smart home controller, family message board, art display, or anything you can dream up. The move comes shortly after Microsoft announced Project Solara. Meta says the tools are hardware-agnostic and work with many existing devices. Still, anything that breathes new life into a defunct gadget is a good thing. [Image: Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth vibe coded his Portal into a smart home dashboard, and now you can, too. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22935185/jtuohy_211014_4807_0005.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]