Comment by ryandrake

19 hours ago

I posted [1] a few days ago my experience using LLM to reverse engineering an entirely undocumented device that was only supported by a (crappy) Windows application, and it was honestly remarkable how good Claude was at decompiling the Windows EXE and reverse engineering the protocol. Very exciting. "The developer refuses to write software for this device" is no longer as scary as it used to be.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353141

I did this a while back with my Eaton UPS and Opus 4.8, glad I didn't need to install windows 11 just to push a blob. The day when a LLM os can make unique drivers will be one I wait for