Here is his very interesting review; unfortunately, it’s only available in German:
Pebble Time 2 im Alltag: Open Source, Gravel und eine Smartwatch ohne Cloud-Zwang
Reading it translated by Firefox.
Especially with firmware and a companion app with access to notifications and other sensitive data, I see the use of coding agents critically. Language models can generate faulty, unnecessarily complex or security-relevant code without being able to reliably assess the consequences.
It’s interesting he says this but also uses Gravel
This is definitely a good read. I didn’t realize the watch faces had as many permissions as they do to do web requests beyond weather. Thankfully it’s not that hard to download the pbw file and take a peak to see what it’s doing though.
You can see that for the Pebble app, too. Look for the Claude icons in the commits, which are usually a bit hidden behind another icon:
