I was thinking about this earlier today. I've been reverse engineering some Sony camera firmware, and there's a bunch of obfuscated cryptography. Executables p

I was thinking about this earlier today. I've been reverse engineering some Sony camera firmware, and there's a bunch of obfuscated cryptography. Executables packed with encryption, funky key derivation algorithms, and the likes. I'm used to dealing with this kind of thing, and in the past I'd just work my way through it. It'd take between "hours" and "days", but I'd get there in the end. You could argue that the obfuscation was already useless, but it did provide a meaningful speed bump, and less determined reverse engineers would simply give up. But with LLMs... I literally did not have to think about any of it. It just routes around it autonomously. Sure, I guess it had to burn a few extra tokens to deal with it, but the cost rounds to 0.