Reverse engineer anything, PHP2Shell, and how Claude Code reviews code

What is this first one? Reverse engineer anything.

So the first one is about probably the dream of every developer.

What if you can code, I don't know, Photoshop or the Office Suite or, I don't know, other popular software.

It's basically possible to do it thanks to the power of the latest large language models.

But also interesting tools like this one, RIA.

which literally means reverse engineer anything.

And this is a repo that got super popular in the past few weeks because people started using it to literally do what the name says, reverse engineer everything.

It got incredibly popular in such a short amount of time that it was beating a lot of records on GitHub.

Although the repository was already open source in April 2026, so earlier this year.

But with the release of Opus 5.5 Astra, people started doing a lot of interesting things with it.

Maybe we can discuss about the ethical and legal implications later.

But so far, let's only focus on the technological side because basically this repository helps you reverse back the source code from any software.

So anything you can imagine, desktop application, macOS applications, web apps, electron apps.

It's a sort of plugin, in reality it's an MCP server, that you can install locally, basically, and instruct your cloud code or GPT codecs to reverse engineer a particular software that you are interested in.

People started doing crazy things, for example, like reverse engineering the smart TV software in order to remove all the bloatware, remove, for example, unsafe features.

For example, they noticed that a lot of smart TVs were recording 24-7, basically.

They had an always-on microphone feature.

They started decompiling games.

So you probably saw demos online of Minecraft Call of Duty, for example, or Super Mario trying to play Elden Rings.

It was really fun.

It was a sort of lucid dream of a combination of different types of software and video games basically merging together.

And the really interesting part is that RIA is nothing really new.

It basically contains an MCP server that combines multiple tools that are already available to basically perform this reverse engineering operation.

I don't know, Murilo, if you are already familiar with the practice of reverse engineering.

It's nothing new.