I've been using a shitty streaming website whose player interrupts the playback of a video in irregular intervals and presents a cryptic error message. I've started looking into the JavaScript code to see if I can't code up a work-around mechanism (basically debugging their garbage implementation), and of course (why actually?) their player code is also obfuscated.<p>And I've gotta say, emplying an AI assistant has proven to be an invaluable help in trying to understand obfuscated code. It's actually really cool to take a function of gobbledegook JavaScript and ask the AI to rewrite it in a more canonical and easily understandable way, with inline comments. Of course, there are flaws every now and then, but the ability to do this has been such a game changer for reverse engineering, IMO.<p>I can even ask to take a guess at finding better variable/function names and the AI can infer from the code (maybe has seen the unobfuscated libraries during training?) what this code is actually doing on a high-level and turn something like e.g(e.g) into player.initialize(player.state) which is nothing short of amazing.<p>So for anyone doing similar work, I cannot recommend highly enough to have an AI agent as another tool in your tool belt.