Agree 100% on all.

There’s very basic, obvious, best-practices type stuff here that’s obviously not being done. Nothing wrong with vibe coding if you like unmaintainable spaghetti code, but whatever AI you use should have its access restricted to ONLY the part you’re modifying.

Firmware releases especially for something like a fridge should have a QC test (IE, automated unit tests) and an alpha/beta test program. That would have caught this.

USERS should be in control of software updates always. Even if the default is ‘keep my shit up to date’ user should have the ability to manually update, roll back, block updates, etc.

Plus which, to adapt an old quote-- having a refrigerator connected to the Internet say they’re adding security features is like a kid’s teacher saying they’ll now always wear a condom while educating students- strictly speaking it’s better than the alternative, but something is still horribly horribly wrong with this picture.