I just had Opus 4.6 absolutely nuke a
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I just had Opus 4.6 absolutely nuke a .NET binary integrity protection added by Dotfuscator in merely 30 minutes. The code was obfuscated to the teeth with string encryption and everything. It is wild how good this thing is at stuff like this. Now I can flip some important bits in the binary again without it complaining on startup
I had to give it the right code snippets of the integrity check, string decryption and prompts to do it and I knew what I was looking for, but still, doing this manually would've taken me hours if not the whole day.
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I just had Opus 4.6 absolutely nuke a .NET binary integrity protection added by Dotfuscator in merely 30 minutes. The code was obfuscated to the teeth with string encryption and everything. It is wild how good this thing is at stuff like this. Now I can flip some important bits in the binary again without it complaining on startup
I had to give it the right code snippets of the integrity check, string decryption and prompts to do it and I knew what I was looking for, but still, doing this manually would've taken me hours if not the whole day.
@G33KatWork yeah, if you know what you're doing and where and how to point LLMs to the right places these things can be incredibly helpful. what also works nicely is asking them about codebases I'm unfamiliar with to get a much quicker head start. they get some stuff wrong but so do I when I have to dive into large new codebases initially.
still annoyed by all the hype around them because it's so hard to tell the useful applications apart from all the BS that's out there
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@G33KatWork yeah, if you know what you're doing and where and how to point LLMs to the right places these things can be incredibly helpful. what also works nicely is asking them about codebases I'm unfamiliar with to get a much quicker head start. they get some stuff wrong but so do I when I have to dive into large new codebases initially.
still annoyed by all the hype around them because it's so hard to tell the useful applications apart from all the BS that's out there
@sven Oh yeah, I do this too. Pair this with an MCP server in Ghidra or IDA and it even rips through smaller binaries like nothing.
And yes, fuck the hype. I still use them a lot to code, but often the thing just types faster than I do or does a refactor with less friction when I have to touch four implementations of that one trait I just modified. But sometimes, when I use it to plan a feature or a bigger refactor, it genuinely has really good ideas that I end up sticking with. Not sure if this still counts as vibe coding though.
What I hate the most is that I am reliant on hosted services for all this. Heck, I am throwing Anthropic 100€ per month into its throat and at the same time, they are not even profitable. It feels like we are getting our first shots of heroin for free and soon the dealer wants to see some serious cash.
I really want to host something like Opus myself, but that is so crazily out of reach it's not funny anymore. I thought about getting a Radeon AI Pro R9700, but after checking what kind of models I am able to run on it, I deemed it an absolute waste of money.
