Comment by bob1029

I don't know how much this matters as we get into a world where any software system can be composed in a few hours.

As the value of a particular piece of software decreases, the value of reversing its specific implementation does as well.

Reverse engineering is about discovering specific methods or protocols. Not for porting entire implementations to new platforms or products. A lot of the specific methods and protocols have been sucked up into the LLM weights, so the need to go digging for these patterns is dramatically reduced.

The biggest application I see here is with digital archaeological work (the opposite of new things).