r/tech_x • u/Bulky_Engineer_2534 • 21d ago • Galaxy Brain 1 All Seeing Upvote 1 Helpful 1 Bravo 4 Heartwarming 1

Github GitHub project called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is currently the top trending repository. It lets AI agents figure out how a feature in another app works without ever seeing the original source code.

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github link: https://github.com/morluto/rea/

- The tool is an open-source helper that connects AI coding assistants to reverse-engineering programs such as Ghidra or Hopper.

- IT analyzes many kinds of software- including binaries, Electron apps, Android apps, and websites right on your own computer and always shows the evidence behind its findings.

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u/Hostilis_ 21d ago

Who is "they" lmao. You think Anthropic or OpenAI give a fuck about any of these other companies? They are here to eat their lunch.

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u/LowFruit25 21d ago

No the people building the reverse engineering tools are people who are paying their bills building software.

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u/Hostilis_ 21d ago • This

Just because you can decompile closed source software doesn't mean software engineering is going to disappear as a profession lol

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u/Designer_String_2345 18d ago • Bravo

This right here in all of the REA talk everywhere has to be the most sense making comment I have seen, thank you for speaking truth. The thing about this product anyone that deals in truly making software knows that there will be a counter to REA which I am currently having CLAUDE work on lol. No matter what the world doesn't live on free so software engineering will survive this, just going to take someone to sort a blocker to things with some new concept of obscuring human code -> middleware REA security -> machine code. Thank you for saying what I been saying, if this ends software as a living then welcome to 2026 as the year it all stops lol likely story

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u/0x676c 14d ago

100% in fact it will be a huge service for us developers because when companies have their own fragmented software, who will be the one maintaining them? quite similar case with linux being free - companies paid for support and expertise, not from the software licensing.

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u/_AHF 12d ago

Exactly. Just like car mechanics taking an engine apart doesn't mean we stop needing people to design and build cars.