REA — Reverse Engineer Anything — connects AI agents to Ghidra and similar tools, letting them read any program down to raw binary. It went from 10,000 to 100,000 GitHub stars between October 6 and 12.
People have already used it to run GTA V natively on iPhone, boot Fable 2 on PC for the first time ever, and send Spider-Man swinging through Arkham City.
Developer Brandon Thomas took the same idea further: he used
Claude Opus 5.5 to build ArtCraft, a free open-source alternative to Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere — written from scratch, no original code touched. His motivation was personal: Adobe had just settled with the DOJ for $150 million over hidden cancellation fees.The oldest copy protection in software was always the sheer pain of reading machine code. That pain is gone.
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