Simon Willison: AI has made reverse engineering much cheaper
ingve · hn · 2026-07-21
Hacker News points to Simon Willison’s essay on how AI has made reverse engineering dramatically cheaper.
The linked post argues that models can now lower the cost of understanding opaque systems, turning tasks that once required deep manual effort into something far more accessible. The HN submission itself does not add further technical detail, but the topic sits squarely in the overlap between AI tooling and practical software analysis.
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