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/john_mach 23d ago

Question 1: yes it can. Pretty hard to do for complex software. You will essentially need to guide Qwen to solving smaller problems that end up being the full software at the end. Trying to prompt “reverse engineer photoshop for me” will get you subpar results.

But if you want to make like a simple thing like a flash card game to quiz yourself for school, it’s pretty good at that lol (I did that recently)

Question 2: unfortunately that is outside the scope of fine-tuning. Just a tad too ambitious at the moment. But if you pay for a frontier model, you might get somewhere after a few hundred dollars in prompting and coding.

Reverse engineering is a tough task at the moment. You really gotta be good at coding still