{"id":12907,"date":"2025-03-07T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=12907"},"modified":"2025-03-07T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:53:08","slug":"27-year-old-exe-becomes-python-in-minutes-with-claude-ai-assisted-reverse-engineering-adafruit-industries-makers-hackers-artists-designers-and-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/03\/07\/27-year-old-exe-becomes-python-in-minutes-with-claude-ai-assisted-reverse-engineering-adafruit-industries-makers-hackers-artists-designers-and-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"27-Year-Old EXE becomes Python in minutes (with Claude) \u2013 AI-Assisted reverse engineering \u00ab Adafruit Industries \u2013 Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Bas\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: 27-Year-Old EXE becomes Python in minutes (with Claude) \u2013 AI-Assisted reverse engineering \u00ab Adafruit Industries \u2013 Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Bas\u2026 Source: 27-Year-Old EXE becomes Python in minutes (with Claude) \u2013 AI-Assisted reverse engineering \u00ab Adafruit Industries \u2013 Makers, hackers, artists,…<\/p>\n

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