You don't need AI to patch binaries, people have been doing it by hand for decades.

It's this accelerating reliance on AI to do 'hard boring things' that really concerns me; it's now passed the tipping point and people are saying that anything slightly esoteric is impossible without AI.

I can guarantee that if you spend an afternoon shifting through binary grot with a hex editor you'll have a real sense of accomplishment when you find the place to put a JMP.