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ACCount37yesterday at 1:55 PM4 repliesview on HN

If you aren't using LLMs for your reverse engineering tasks, you're missing out, big time. Claude kicks ass.

It's good at cleaning up decompiled code, at figuring out what functions do, at uncovering weird assembly tricks and more.


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keepamovinyesterday at 3:51 PM

The article is a useful resource for setting up automated flows, and Claude is great at assembly. Codex less so, Gemini is also good at assembly. Gemini will happily hand roll x86_64 bytecode. Codex appears optimized for more "mainstream" dev tasks, and excels at that. If only Gemini had a great agent...

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skerityesterday at 3:59 PM

I've been using Claude for months with Ghidra. It is simply amazing.

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ameliusyesterday at 2:43 PM

Makes sense because LLMs are quite good at translating between natural languages.

Anyway, we're reaching the point where documentation can be generated by LLMs and this is great news for developers.

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