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Github's hottest new repo is a project that lets anyone use AI agents to reverse engineer software

Posted by doubledown User icon on October 17, 2026, 09:41:11

One engineer has already used it to create open source versions of half of Adobe's suite in like a week. Now, they're not perfect, but that's quite a start.

I wonder how long Microsoft will let this exist on GH.

https://github.com/morluto/rea

AI is so awesome. *

Posted by timmer User icon on October 17, 2026, 12:57:24, in reply to "Github's hottest new repo is a project that lets anyone use AI agents to reverse engineer software"

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(for rent)

This repo has everything…AI agents, questionable legality, my SON.

Posted by Waka User icon on October 17, 2026, 10:52:24, in reply to "Github's hottest new repo is a project that lets anyone use AI agents to reverse engineer software"

And of course DJ Baby Bok Choi.

No Dan Cortese?*

Posted by Sammich User icon on October 17, 2026, 11:05:05, in reply to "This repo has everything…AI agents, questionable legality, my SON."

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And of course DJ Baby Bok Choi.

What we've become is contrary to what we want
Take a bow

It’s not really open source if the software’s owner did not approve

Posted by Potomac User icon on October 17, 2026, 09:44:22, in reply to "Github's hottest new repo is a project that lets anyone use AI agents to reverse engineer software"

Back in the day, such reverse engineering violated license agreements and possibly IP rules, depending on what you did with it.

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If someone uses agents to decompile software and create written specs that contain no source code,

Posted by doubledown User icon on October 17, 2026, 09:53:34, in reply to "It’s not really open source if the software’s owner did not approve "

and never sees the source code for themselves, then moves those specs over to a completely different computer and uses different agents to turn those specs into working software, what's the call?

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Back in the day, such reverse engineering violated license agreements and possibly IP rules, depending on what you did with it.

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Probably a license breach. Could yield trade secret or copyright liability depending on terms*

Posted by gvibes User icon on October 17, 2026, 13:35:07, in reply to "If someone uses agents to decompile software and create written specs that contain no source code, "

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and never sees the source code for themselves, then moves those specs over to a completely different computer and uses different agents to turn those specs into working software, what's the call?

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Back in the day, such reverse engineering violated license agreements and possibly IP rules, depending on what you did with it.

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Asking for a friend? ;-)*

Posted by ATL User icon on October 17, 2026, 10:17:56, in reply to "If someone uses agents to decompile software and create written specs that contain no source code, "

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and never sees the source code for themselves, then moves those specs over to a completely different computer and uses different agents to turn those specs into working software, what's the call?

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Back in the day, such reverse engineering violated license agreements and possibly IP rules, depending on what you did with it.

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

No, just curious about what kind of nonsense we're about to see. *

Posted by doubledown User icon on October 17, 2026, 10:20:18, in reply to "Asking for a friend? ;-)*"

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and never sees the source code for themselves, then moves those specs over to a completely different computer and uses different agents to turn those specs into working software, what's the call?

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Back in the day, such reverse engineering violated license agreements and possibly IP rules, depending on what you did with it.

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There have always been a lot of similar cases over the years. It’s just easier now.

Posted by gvibes User icon on October 17, 2026, 13:36:46, in reply to "No, just curious about what kind of nonsense we're about to see. *"

A lot of them involving video games actually. Eg game genie, or creating open source WoW servers

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and never sees the source code for themselves, then moves those specs over to a completely different computer and uses different agents to turn those specs into working software, what's the call?

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Back in the day, such reverse engineering violated license agreements and possibly IP rules, depending on what you did with it.

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Interesting. Doing that manually in the past would have been disallowed

Posted by Potomac User icon on October 17, 2026, 10:01:25, in reply to "If someone uses agents to decompile software and create written specs that contain no source code, "

With the tools of the day, I’m sure my companies would have considered that possible theft of intellectual property. You weren’t allowed to make your own version of our software, or a derivative.

But a lot depends on license agreements.

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and never sees the source code for themselves, then moves those specs over to a completely different computer and uses different agents to turn those specs into working software, what's the call?

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Back in the day, such reverse engineering violated license agreements and possibly IP rules, depending on what you did with it.

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In any case, wild days ahead. Kind of a fun technology for abandonware though.

Posted by doubledown User icon on October 17, 2026, 10:15:14, in reply to "Interesting. Doing that manually in the past would have been disallowed"

I'm currently using it to reverse engineer an old piece of hardware that has no modern usable drivers.

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and never sees the source code for themselves, then moves those specs over to a completely different computer and uses different agents to turn those specs into working software, what's the call?

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Back in the day, such reverse engineering violated license agreements and possibly IP rules, depending on what you did with it.

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