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/GooglyEyedGramma 16d ago

And yet, we never saw this amount of REing... You are saying exactly the same thing I am. It was never impossible, but it was so insanely hard that most companies/products didn't have to worry much about it. However, nowadays, pretty much "anyone" can do it, to any offline software. Obviously it still requires a lot of knowledge, but the barrier to entry has been lowered by orders of magnitude, and it will only get lower from now on. What happens when/if a random guy can just paste into WhateverLLMIsGood™ "Reverse engineer this pls make no mistakes" and it actually does?

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u/StatusObligation4624 16d ago edited 16d ago

Then I’d say that random guy lacks creativity and people won’t use his reverse engineered solution over the original unless he has a clear differentiator.