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I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job I assumed needed a frontier model, and it finished in 30 minutes
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You can give the model access to a tool like ghidra via a MCP and it will probably be able to solve the problem quicker and (if you ask it) you will get an annotated ghidra project out at the end.
Without it, it will likely write a series of python scripts using capstone etc.
But yes, local models are good. I just wish I could afford the hardware to run them.
Better yet, give your model access to a CLI and save on context window
This is the current challenge, MCP and standards are helping to define the protocols, but harnesses and setting guardrails are almost as important as a quality model.