Claude Code and Codex Guardrails Hit Users Reverse Engineering Their Own Devices
'Reverse Engineer Anything': AI Companies Crack Down on the Coolest Thing People Were Doing With AI
Users of Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex are hitting safety checks, warnings or account restrictions when using the tools for AI-powered reverse engineering, with one X user reporting an OpenAI ban for "cyber abuse" after decompiling Samsung TVs. A Reddit post in r/ClaudeCode titled "The Dream is dead" and reports in the Reverse Engineer Anything Discord describe Claude refusing to decompile, while the Decomp.wtf project has shut down. OpenAI engineer Tarun Gogineni said there is no prohibition against reverse engineering with Codex and that the blocks are mostly accidental and being fixed, but practitioners say they are moving toward open weight, local and uncensored models.
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