alt Hacker NewsMany people seem to be making this about their pet issue, but "these systems are complex" and "the frontier labs have developed models that are superhuman at hacking" seems like a totally sufficient explanation.
I've been working with a LoRa chip called the LR2021. I plugged a dev board into my computer and told Claude to reverse engineer it. He dissected it with a speed and level of efficiency I couldn't believe. Within a few hours, Claude was writing custom patches for a completely opaque patch RAM area meant only for the manufacture. I wrote about it here: https://beala.substack.com/p/your-node-doesnt-need-a-microco...
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Don't ignore the possibility Claude was trained on non-public documentation or code, perhaps even illicitly acquired. That doesn't make Claude any less useful, just not necessarily for the reasons you think.
> He dissected it
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> Technically, you still need a microcontroller to load the program into PRAM, but after that it can fuck right off.
This is why organically written text is superior. Hell yeah.
The stuff we have seen so far feels less like super human hacking skills and more human skills at superhuman scale.
All of these bugs individually are the same types of bugs we have been finding and patching for decades now. But we found a way to scale that far beyond what we had before.