alt Hacker NewsI’m surprised people don’t get refusals running this, or are they running it with cyber-enabled models like daybreak?
In my experience, even just hinting at reverse engineering to models from Anthropic or OpenAI leaves them extremely sensitive to refusals. After all, the same techniques used here can be used to find exploits.
Or are people using it with local models?
Curious.
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Yes, it just rejected me once with Claude Code Opus 5.5, but it works fine with Codex 6.1-Sol (in my experience, it was the other way around)
I handed Astra Ghidra with some printer driver exes/dlls loaded, and a Windows 2000 VM with the software installed and said "reverse engineer this printer driver, it's hooked up and powered on on /dev/ttyUSB0, tell me when you're ready to print a test page". No refusals.
I think people said that Claude refuses to work on RE sometimes.
I've had no issues with OpenAI.
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Reverse engineering and decompilation is not currently blocked by the models, leading to the proliferation of LLM-assisted decomps/recomps. If you ask it to find bugs you're more likely to get a refusal, but simply pointing an LLM at a Ghidra MCP server and telling it to trace program flow, rename functions, or answer questions behaves like normal.