I was replacing the factory OS from a NAS and asked Sol to do an inventory on the running system over SSH, so that I could replicate any hardware compatibility quirks and whatnot.
It reverse engineered a binary daemon that set fan curves and told me how I should set them up in the new OS. I didn’t ask for this, and I didn’t have reverse engineering tools installed. It just figured out it could run them using Nix.
The most worrying part, to me, is that it did it like it was nothing. It simply said “usr/local/bin/some-daemon sets the following fan curves”. I had to ask how it reached that conclusion for it to tell me casually that it had just read it straight from the x86_64 assembly.
No access to the source code is no longer a meaningful obstacle to these models.
Haven't tried with Sol but Opus's ability to reverse engineer both Linux and naked microcontroller firmware has blown me away. I'm basically at the point where embedded devices doing something weird get Claude Code + radare2 + Ghidra pointed at them right away. "When I do X, Y happens. Starting at the input layer, work through this firmware and figure out what circumstances would cause command X to do Y instead of Z. Keep notes on the structure of the firmware so that we can ask more questions without having to start reverse engineering from scratch."
It reverse engineered a binary daemon that set fan curves and told me how I should set them up in the new OS. I didn’t ask for this, and I didn’t have reverse engineering tools installed. It just figured out it could run them using Nix.
The most worrying part, to me, is that it did it like it was nothing. It simply said “usr/local/bin/some-daemon sets the following fan curves”. I had to ask how it reached that conclusion for it to tell me casually that it had just read it straight from the x86_64 assembly.
No access to the source code is no longer a meaningful obstacle to these models.