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Claude Opus 5.5 claims reverse engineering is infeasible

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A user reported that Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 model claimed reverse engineering a game and a repository was not feasible. The model stated that decompiling the game Thief 3: Deadly Shadows would take years and that even if it decompiled a function from the REA repository using Ghidra, the result would not compile or execute. The user questioned whether these limitations were due to built-in guardrails or model laziness. AI

IMPACT This commentary on Claude Opus 5.5's capabilities highlights potential limitations in complex reasoning tasks like reverse engineering.

RANK_REASON User report on model behavior, not a direct release or research finding.

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Claude Opus 5.5 claims reverse engineering is infeasible

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 (AF) · /u/red_star_rising ·

    My Opus said reverse engineering does not work??

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We’re all aware of the current scene of decompiling and “natively” running a game on Windows or Linux. It’s like every time I open Reddit, a new game has been ported to a platform it wasn’t released on. </p> <p>I wanted to give it a shot so I poi…

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