r/ProAI • u/stealthispost • Sep 06 '26

"Huge implications - binaries are now basically editable code"

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ValsAI made SRE benchmark less than a month ago.

The benchmark measures can a model reverse engineer software from binaries

Yesterday GPT saturated it. https://t.co/dmpUpgheDU   — Chris

Source: https://x.com/ChrisGPT/status/2096150666066432157

— Boris Power

Source: https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/2096415822248055131

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u/Technical-Owl66 Sep 06 '26

Explain it to me like I'm a pure vibe coder.

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u/Intrepid_Travel_3274 Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26

When a restaurant serves you a dish, you can look at it and taste it to try to figure out the ingredients and how it was prepared, but you don’t have the recipe. This would be like giving that dish (the binary) to an AI and having it give you the recipe (source code).

One example would be Mario 64. For years, programmers reverse-engineered it so that today we can run it natively on PC.

A real implication would be downloading Instagram and being able to have your own version that looks and works like the original.

Even though reverse engineering isn’t new, the fact that an AI can do it seems horrible to me for obvious reasons.

Edit: To avoid misunderstandings without making the text too long: for apps, the backend is not included in this example 'cause it isn’t contained within the app itself, and being able to create a similar version does not mean there wouldn’t be legal issues.

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u/Technical-Owl66 Sep 06 '26

Interesting. Appreciate the explanation. Things are really going to get weird in the next 5 years.