alt Hacker NewsSince it seems AI is pretty good at reverse-engineering stuff like this, is there any educational material on how to use it for that purpose? Seems like it could really help port things like postmarketOS to new devices (and improve support on existing ones)?
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You should try asking AI itself about it
I have some experience on this and could make an article if you are interested.
The key is to have downstream sources and be very very conservative with the AI, slowly build step by step.
You also have to know C and have a spider sense of what's acceptable or not.
Another key is to ask for approval before editing any source with a patch of what it intends to do. This way you can judge what it wants to do and ask for a double check of the patch. Go quality over quantity.
This isn't web frontend, you have to be very strict and somewhat knowledgeable. Nobody can use AI to write kernel code without some good low level and engineering knowledge.
Ahh yes, rely on AI to avoid learning how to do something. Our brains are cooked if we keep up these attitudes.
Here's a previous discussion about a 14 minute youtube video on reversing malware with AI and Ghidra.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474490