Archil founder: AI reverse-engineering is making it unsafe to ship binaries to customers
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-28
Archil founder @jhleath reports that over the past 6 weeks, multiple users have tried to reverse-engineer the Archil client or infer its behavior from strings inside the binary. He argues AI is making it unsafe to ship just a binary to customers, complicating software distribution, and wonders whether the answer is to open-source everything.
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