Hands-on review finds REA reverse-engineering tool is more hype than substance
A Juejin post by developer "程序员鱼皮" reviews REA (Reverse Engineer Anything), an open-source command-line tool plus MCP service that wraps established reverse-engineering utilities such as Ghidra, IDA and JADX so AI coding assistants like Cursor, Codex and Claude Code can drive them. The author reports that Codex with GPT-6 Astra successfully added a new character to an old Android game, while Claude Opus 5.5 refused to fully decompile a Flutter app on safety grounds and a switch to DeepSeek produced a working skeleton analysis. He concludes REA invents nothing new, that its roughly 170 tool definitions and 100k-plus tokens of context are heavy, and that models can reverse-engineer without it; the post also repeats anecdotal, unverified user stories and a claim that the project's GitHub stars jumped past 200,000 in early October.
The review argues that REA's real contribution is packaging existing reverse-engineering tools behind one interface for AI assistants, while cautioning that much of the "software is dead" framing around it is hype.
大家好，我是程序员鱼皮。
最近一周，我的时间线被一个叫 REA 的开源项目刷屏了。
起因是 AI 圈的知名博主 Matthew Berman 发了条推文：逆向一切，软件已死。
这条推文直接爆了，到处都是「以后什么软件都能被 AI 扒光」的声音。
大家也纷纷晒出自己的逆向战绩。
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