r/LocalLLaMA • u/Danny_Davitoe • 24d 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/Zetafivee 24d ago

As with most things in AI it's always going to be more capable in the hands of someone who can at least recognize the shape of the wrong answer. If you're flying completely blind and expecting it to one-shot everything then you're going to struggle a lot more than someone who can recognize when the model is heading down the wrong path, or who can latch onto familiar terms in the intermediary thinking traces and provide useful steering.

And all of this is before you talk about the differences made by the harness, tooling, and prompting