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REA: Giving My Coding Agent Real Reverse-Engineering Tools (and What I Had to Verify First)

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Ask an AI coding agent how a program works and it will usually tell you. Fluently, in detail, and mostly from memory: what programs like that tend to do, reconstructed from training data. The actual file on your disk never gets opened. REA changes that. This post covers what it is, what it's useful…

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  1. 2026-10-21 17:36 · DEV Community — AI
    REA: Giving My Coding Agent Real Reverse-Engineering Tools (and What I Had to Verify First)

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