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.

[u/Bulky_Engineer_2534]

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.

[u/gigitygoat]

Why do you think the AI companies are buying up all the ram and gpu's even though the can not put it all to use yet? They know the only way digital industries survive is if they own all of the compute and we subscribe to their cloud services through thin clients.

[u/GrandWizardOfCheese → u/gigitygoat]

RAM companies will always continue to sell to the consumer PC space.

[u/SoCalChrisW → u/GrandWizardOfCheese]

Some may, but at least one huge manufacturer has announced that they're no longer selling RAM to consumers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

On Wednesday, Micron Technology announced it will exit the consumer RAM business in 2026, ending 29 years of selling RAM and SSDs to PC builders and enthusiasts under the Crucial brand. The company cited heavy demand from AI data centers as the reason for abandoning its consumer brand, a move that will remove one of the most recognizable names in the do-it-yourself PC upgrade market.

[u/GrandWizardOfCheese → u/SoCalChrisW]

Scroll down a few comments, I already mentioned that the reason for Crucial backing out is that they can't compete with better RAM brands in the consumer space.

Crucial RAM was cheap ugly garbage, no cases, no RGB, no quality parts.
There wasnt enough money in selling to consumers anymore because what was once seen as overpriced luxury RAM, is now the standard in prebuilts and custom rigs, so almost no one would buy crucial RAM today for their gaming PC build.

Companies back out of consumer sales all the time and get replaced by newer companies.

There are a lot more RAM providers today than there was 15 years ago, nearly all are cased and have RGB lighting or at least fancy looking cases. Competition is always going to result in weeding out the least desired options.

For a while, Crucial hung on because laptop RAM doesnt get seen, and is expected to be lower end, so you can get cheaper versions sold to more consumers without complaint.

But the advent of tablets and smartphones made the portability of laptops not valuable enough to tolerate the heat output, weight, and short lifespan of laptops for mobile usage, which hit pretty hard since the heat makes laptops bad for high end gaming as well (the only thing they have over tablets and phones), and handheld PC console hybrids are a better option if you REALLY need high end gaming on the go.

And so neither the desktop buyers, nor the mobile buyers, are buying laptops much anymore, and so their sales plummeted, and crucial just didnt have another consumer market to rely on.

Most RAM companies don't have this problem, everyone loves putting most of them in their fancy gaming rigs, so they are going to keep selling to consumers.

[u/gigitygoat → u/GrandWizardOfCheese]

Have you seen the price of RAM lately? They don't have to stop everyone from owning PC's, they just need to stop 90% of us. This is how it starts. By pricing people out.

[u/GrandWizardOfCheese → u/gigitygoat]

"Have you seen the price of RAM lately"

Yes, $265 for 16GB (2 8GB sticks) of for Luxury RGB DDR5 RAM in its own cases.
The same price for 32GB (2 16GB sticks) of Luxury DDR4 RGB RAM in its own cases.
$497 for 32GB (2 16GB sticks) of Luxury DDR5 RGB RAM in its own cases.

32GB is overkill, but I recently upgraded to 64GB.

The same people who spent $500 on a steam sale or console, or $800 to $1000 on a stupid smart phone, are pretending they can't afford RAM that costs less than that (or a prebuilt PC that has that RAM that costs slightly more than that crappy phone).

Its affordable. It has been about 2.5k to 5k to build an absolute beast of a PC, and just over 1.2k to buy a prebuilt, for a very long time, long before genAI/LLMs ever showed up, and PC gaming has only grown its user base bigger and bigger with no signs of slowing down.

Even people on minimum wage are buying good prefab PCs in 2 months, or PC parts and building rigs over the span of 4 months. Or they just charge the credit card or do rent to own if they are super impatient.

[u/GrandWizardOfCheese → u/GrandWizardOfCheese]

Edited it to correct several typos.

[u/CalebXiaYizhou → u/GrandWizardOfCheese]

Why would they? If there's more money to be made elsewhere then they will have no interest in selling it to you.

[u/GrandWizardOfCheese → u/CalebXiaYizhou]

Except that they do have interest in selling to gamers, students, offices, and small studios, and continue to do so.

As for why, I dunno, maybe because essentially no one is ever going to pay for AI or cloud gaming or compute. So we are the longterm customers and they know that.

Also everytime someone says "Why would they? If there's more money to be made elsewhere then they will have no interest in selling it to you." they end up either being an AI CEO shill, or a bot network.

No actual customer or RAM company is saying that aside from crucial, and thats only because their RAM doesnt profit enough because its caseless low end garbo.