Hacker News AI· AIshihzong·· 2 days agoAI score38
Did it use REA? Checking viral AI reverse-engineering demos
Did it use REA? Checking viral AI reverse-engineering demos
AI summary
A verification page checks 39 cases described as "built with REA" against each project's README, agent files, author posts or official showcase, finding 26 confirmed, 3 partial, 4 unverified and 6 not REA (mostly Claude Code or Codex with Ghidra or IDA, or manual work). The README column was re-checked on 2026-11-10 with no changes, and X posts could not be opened from the authors' environment. It notes that two small controlled comparisons, rea-lab (482 preregistered runs) and leanrea (36 runs), found no significant gain in solve rate from REA at higher time and cost.
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