Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

Researchers have found that LLM-driven bug finding is not a drop-in replacement for mature static analysis pipelines. Studies comparing AI coding agents to human developers show that while AI can be ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...