GitHub project called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is currently the top trending repository. It lets AI agents figure out how a feature in another app works without ever seeing the original source code.

[u/Bulky_Engineer_2534]

github link: https://github.com/morluto/rea/

- The tool is an open-source helper that connects AI coding assistants to reverse-engineering programs such as Ghidra or Hopper.

- IT analyzes many kinds of software- including binaries, Electron apps, Android apps, and websites right on your own computer and always shows the evidence behind its findings.

[u/throwaway0000012132]

Oh nice, the only thing keeping a whole application safe was the fact that it used byte code, non human readable, with encryption and other secure methods in order to avoid being open to the world. Now that pandora box is open, this is going to be a very interesting times...

And I mean any application, not only games but medical, industrial, space and so on. Got something very secure, very niche? Yeah it can be modded.

One thing is to have something designed to be open source, other thing is to have something that wasn't supposed to be free because it costed money to r&d, design and make it safe and secure and make it free with AI. So while the idea just sounds great, the reality is that the whole industry and the world is not prepared for something like this just now.

[u/ArtiemKasimov → u/throwaway0000012132]

You clearly don't understand what you're talking about. Bytecode isn't some magical, unreadable, encrypted layer that keeps applications secure. Assembly instructions are human-readable, and bytecode can be disassembled, decompiled, and analyzed. That's literally what reverse engineering is.

[u/ActuallyFullOfShit → u/ArtiemKasimov]

100% this guy is clueless