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It's funny too you'll hear people say they reverse-engineered something (not related to today's post) and you're like "wow that's impressive" but it turns out A
by ge96 7mo ago
It's funny too you'll hear people say they reverse-engineered something (not related to today's post) and you're like "wow that's impressive" but it turns out AI did it.
- krackers 7mo agoI mean people use IDA for decompilation instead of reading assembly directly, and that's counted as as valid reverse engineering. Why shouldn't throwing it an LLM count as well? I think reverse engineering is one of the fields where "anything goes", it doesn't matter how you get to the answer as long as you get there. I do agree that the notion of difficulty needs to be recalibrated though, seemingly impressive RE tasks can now be done trivially with LLMs.
- ge96 7mo agoI wonder what the distinction is, where you draw the line Is using an LLM the same as writing JavaScript over Assembler? idk I guess it's the same argument of doing math yourself vs. using a calculator, gets the job done But yeah it goes back to my perspective of why be a carpenter/furniture maker when a 3D printer can just spit one out Why milk the cow when you can just buy the milk