I mean people use IDA for decompilation instead of reading assembly directly, and that's counted as as valid reverse engineering. Why shouldn't throwing it an LLM count as well? I think reverse engineering is one of the fields where "anything goes", it doesn't matter how you get to the answer as long as you get there.

I do agree that the notion of difficulty needs to be recalibrated though, seemingly impressive RE tasks can now be done trivially with LLMs.

I wonder what the distinction is, where you draw the line

Is using an LLM the same as writing JavaScript over Assembler? idk

I guess it's the same argument of doing math yourself vs. using a calculator, gets the job done

But yeah it goes back to my perspective of why be a carpenter/furniture maker when a 3D printer can just spit one out

Why milk the cow when you can just buy the milk