is this like the ultimate form of "headline is all you need"?
I came here wanting to see after-action-report of someone actually using Ai or wtvr for reverse-engineering. Instead I got "I heard it was so. The end"
They're not really intended to be widely discussed outside of my site, it's more of a way of dropping small thoughts into my blog rather than keeping them exclusive to Twitter or Bluesky or Mastodon.
Maybe he had a particular audience in mind when he wrote it. An audience for whom the mere realization would rock the foundations of their stolid and boring lives.
On the other hand, I’ve watched the movie Paycheck (2003), so my imagination has a high bar before it’s rocked by mere suggestion. Therefore, I wonder why the OP user @edward thought it was worthy of our attention.
I expected to read their excited engagement with others here, but alas no. It’s a mystery.
Doing the same by hand can be really time consuming and difficult depending on how many obfuscation measures are layered on top.
For example, just yesterday I reverse engineered the internal API of a SAAS tool we use and it allowed me to gain programmatic access to data that was only available in their slow clunky UI.
the article itself is worthless, and nobody in the comments seem to even interact with its content, you included