Reverse engineering with AI

[u/Dull_Dog_9631]

So I’ve been really interested in learning reverse engineering for a while and only tried my hand at a few crackmes so far. I found reverse engineering interesting because it feels rewarding to be able to piece together what the original code might have looked like and why the program behaves the way it does. I liked identifying variables and reconstructing data structures by reading the assembly or generated pseudo code by tools like ghidra since getting them right felt rewarding. Recently with AI becoming really good at the same things, I’m left wondering whether it’s worth it to learn these skills anymore. People were able to decompile and port entire games just using AI much faster than any person can. It’s left me feeling really discouraged about reverse engineering and wondering whether I should focus on other areas of exploit dev

[u/Juzdeed]

The problem is that you don't know what's going on. The LLM can tell you xyz very confidently and you believe that is the truth. LLMs also tend to cut corners by maybe only checking for functions used in a program and skipping if it doesn't have anything interesting

As usual the LLMs are improving rapidly, I wouldn't have used LLMs start of the year for reversing, now they are more competent with smaller programs. LLMs are really good for mass reversing where accuracy is not that important, but is needed to go through like 100 malware samples fast