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Comment by josephg

1 day ago

Debuggers still have their place in algorithm heavy work, or to pull apart heap dumps to try and figure out obscure bugs.

Even LLMs use debuggers. I asked Claude to reverse engineer a closed source binary the other day. It used gdb to trace its behaviour. Didn’t even use ghidra.

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