US Edition27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next?
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A Reddit user has shown what value AI models can have in rescuing old software - especially when the original source code is lost. Because AI is pretty good at reverse engineering. (Read more)
With the help of Claude 3.7, a programmer has converted a 27-year-old .exe file into Python code. The process took only five minutes. (AI, programming languages)
27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next
Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post "detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in Python."It was an old Visual Basic 4 program they had written in 1997. Running a VB4 exe in 2024 can be a real yak-shaving compatibility nightmare, c
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slashdot.org27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next?
Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post "detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in Python." It was an old Visual Basic 4 program they had written in 1997. Running a VB4 exe in 2024 can be a real yak-shaving compatibility nightmare,…
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