Steve Yegge: Claude just reads the binary when it wants to know how closed-source Rex works
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-10-10
Steve Yegge notes a striking behavior: Rex is (as far as he knows) closed-source, yet when Claude wants to understand how it works, it simply looks inside the binary itself. A neat anecdote showing how capable frontier coding models have become at reverse-engineering closed software on their own.
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