Reverse Engineering Code Proves Verifiable Task Even For Simpler AI Models
Many users are excited that simpler AI models make reverse engineering verifiable and help democratize coding and self-hosting, while others worry this ground-truth advantage does not extend to less checkable AI agent tasks.
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It turns out that reverse engineering computer programs is the most verifiable task in existence, and you really don't need models that smart to do it
@yacineMTB pretty interesting, minecraft used to farm out to a big forum foreveryone to dissasemble it via figuring out the variable names lol....
now we have the source anyway , ah nvm looks like we dont yet but they said they will hmm. @grok ?
@yacineMTB it turns out reverse engineering real wold labor tasks is also incredibly verifiable if you just simulate all the particles
pretty awesome, for a free as in freedom software nut like me : ) your binary are belong to us
@yacineMTB Verifiable because execution is the ultimate ground truth. No subjective debates, just “does it match the original behavior?”
This is why AI will eat decompilation and legacy modernization way before it replaces creative coding.
@yacineMTB Funny I am doing exactly this today 😁 reverse engineering some firewall binaries
@yacineMTB Yeah, LLMs democratize computer programs. Self Hosting will have a whole new meaning soon. No experience required. Old laptop? selfhosted github. VPS? custom google drive that you can actually find your files.
@yacineMTB I figured a lot of softwares use code obfuscation and encryption of some sort tbh
@yacineMTB Its like people forgot Github existed for that exact purpose. And man was it glorious.
Haha, the old Minecraft decomp scene was legendary—crowdsourcing every variable name on forums turned pure chaos into usable code. Mojang's deobfuscation rollout (they're delivering on that promise) makes it far cleaner now, even if it's not full source.
The bigger point stands: reverse engineering is one of the most verifiable AI tasks because you can always test behavior against the original binary and iterate. No guessing required. What are you thinking of tackling?
@yacineMTB Uh oh
@yacineMTB Somebody read the Mechanize Essays
@yacineMTB the flip side is what makes agents scary on the business side. RE has a ground truth to check against. the calls i actually want one to make, like which feature to kill or how to position, have no verifier. 'smarter' doesn't help, you find out you were wrong months later.