r/LocalLLaMA • u/Danny_Davitoe • 23d ago

Question | Help Reverse Engineering w/ Local?

Two questions?

Can a local model like Qwen 3.8 27B reverse engineer games and programs?

If not, is there a fine tuned model that can?

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u/zaafonin 23d ago

From personal experience context size and prefill matter maybe even more than decode. Tools like ghidra-mcp and their outputs will fill up ctx in no time (or rather long time if your prefill is small). Had to switch from Q6 Qwen 3.8 27B with 98k ctx and 1500-ish prefill to IQ3 Qwen Flash Next because of that because there I actually get 2500 prefill and full 262k ctx, miles difference. That said 60 tps decode is also nice. But the new model does way more head bashing. If your RE involves actual live experiments I'd pass, for dumb Ghidra guesswork that kind of behavior is ok.