'Reverse-Engineer Anything' Is the New Wild West of AI
toomuchtodo
23 points
8 comments
October 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
tkdb
Let's imagine that virtually any software can be reverse engineered with enough tokens. The bottleneck is the human effort to deploy the tokens. I imagine that bottleneck is much, much, less of a constraint for openAI, anthropic, and the ilk.
dualvariable
Oh no, people might jailbreak the os on their TV or refrigerator and remove all the ads... We can't have that...
godockly
the future is going to be wild
thatguy0900
I'm really curious what this will end up doing to video games. There's a lot of modding scenes that are starting to get mods that are essentially just a different game stapled onto the first one with ai assistance.
alok-g
Can someone explain how does this work behind the scenes? Also, how much would be typical AI token costs of doing this for various apps, simple to complex using some reference AI model? Thanks.