> Claude ran strings on the binary and this was the most productive step of the whole session.
After $150 in tokens, inflating GPU prices by 10%, spending $550 of VC money, and increasing the earth's temperature by 0.2 degC, claude did what a 16 year old that read two blog posts about reverse engineering would do.
I think the number of people who could do this in half an hour is low.
Article is saying it was the most productive step and crediting it to Claude. However it is indeed what anyone would do pretty much as a first step.
The impact of AI on environment is overblown.