Can open-weight models reverse-engineer a stripped Rust binary?

hello@eiken.dev (eikendev) — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:25:00 +0000

I took a stripped Rust binary from a small tool I’ve been maintaining since 2021, handed it to four open-weight models, and asked them to explain how one piece of its logic works. Each model got its own sandbox and had to work alone, without running the binary. I ran each one 3 times. The best model was never wrong. The rest were basically a coin flip, and not one of them ever came back with “I don’t know”.

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Can open-weight models reverse-engineer a stripped Rust binary?