I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
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Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
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Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
#3I'd personally like to know more about what tools it used/wanted and the harness setup, because this sounds pretty cool. I have a dual Arc Pro B70 setup and currently get around 22 t/s which isn't great but isn't terrible either (it is at least less quantized.)
I've seen GPT 5.6 Sol happily invoke objdump and even write jobs to run headlessly which Ghidra when trying to disassemble a binary.
Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
#4Lately I genuinely believe that the future will be large frontier models generating and updating inputs/skills for "good enough" local models to solve our daily problems.
A lot of tasks which need a bit of intelligence don't really need that much compute. Just good enough documentation / skills, tool calling and a good enough local model.
Not sure what exactly this means for all those data centers that are getting built... But exciting times.
Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
#5> The first attempt at recovering the key was wrong in a very specific way; it produced a working key and the signature check passed, but a hash the binary computes as an integrity check didn't match. In my experience, most models would have called it done and left it at that, but Qwen 3.8 27B didn't do that. Instead, it highlighted the mismatch, went back to the drawing board, and kept going until the value matched byte for byte.
This seems to be a pattern in the more recently released models that I think accounts for an increase in the quality of their work. They are very persistent in verifying that their work is actually correct, so even if they're not as "smart" as bigger models that get it right the first time, they have the ability to follow through to ensure that the work is actually done.
Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
#6I'd personally like to know more about what tools it used/wanted and the harness setup, because this sounds pretty cool. I have a dual Arc Pro B70 setup and currently get around 22 t/s which isn't great but isn't terrible either (it is at least less quantized.) I've seen GPT 5.6 Sol happily invoke objdump and even write jobs to run headlessly which Ghidra when trying to disassemble a binary.
My M5 Pro gets around 12-15 (6 bit MTP), although I haven’t worked on optimising it at all yet.
A nice thing about running locally is you can run an uncensored model and you don’t have to worry about TOS violations on your OpenAI account when you ask it to “reverse engineer this ancient router firmware and give me a licence key that will work on it”.
Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
#7> The first attempt at recovering the key was wrong in a very specific way; it produced a working key and the signature check passed, but a hash the binary computes as an integrity check didn't match. In my experience, most models would have called it done and left it at that, but Qwen 3.8 27B didn't do that. Instead, it highlighted the mismatch, went back to the drawing board, and kept going until the value matched…
Well, it seems that Linus doesn't use those:
> And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work.
> I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.
> I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
#8Local models would be even better if they did not ship with all the refusal shenanigans built-in. You can safely bet organized crime has access to the best models without these hoops, which makes the case that the average user (=non-criminal) should have access too. As I understood from an ex-Anthropic employee, some orgs got access to Mythos based on their high enough spending level, not on other grounds.
Either we are in command over the software, or the corp is in command over us via the software. I can on a theoretical level understand the concerns, but either we ban all LLMs or we have a level playing field for everybody. Let's not forget: defense and offense are different sides of the same coin in software. I guess this wouldn't apply to bio weapons, but I am not in the know about that.
Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
#9Local models would be even better if they did not ship with all the refusal shenanigans built-in. You can safely bet organized crime has access to the best models without these hoops, which makes the case that the average user (=non-criminal) should have access too. As I understood from an ex-Anthropic employee, some orgs got access to Mythos based on their high enough spending level, not on other grounds. Either we…
Ehh, it’s at least given as the excuse for gain-of-function bioweapon research
Re: I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
#10Why does the screenshot on your pi terminal shows opus-4.6-medium from your claude subscription ? Instead of Qwen ?