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BY Chris Velazco

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On a quiet Monday evening, 42-year-old Igor Aguiar decided to give his 75-inch Amazon Fire TV a much-needed—and pointedly pious—facelift.

Ninety minutes and a handful of AI prompts later, he sat back to admire his handiwork. The TV’s original home screen, once dotted with movie recommendations and toilet paper ads, was gone. In its place sat a sleek, colorful replacement launcher with shortcuts to his most-used apps and, more crucially, a breakdown of the day’s significance in the Catholic liturgical calendar.

“I needed something more useful to me,” he tells me. “That’s kind of why I said, OK, let me try to make this a Catholic TV.”

Aguiar is a developer by trade, but he’s no smart TV guru. Instead, he’s one of a growing number of tinkerers using artificial intelligence to combat the software clutter gumming up the biggest screens in their homes.…