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REA "not likely to work with Claude"
A Reddit thread about Claude declining REA reverse engineering tasks.
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The poster asked Claude in a new project to summarise the Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) toolkit and write a guide to it. Claude ran the search, then a safety guardrail stopped it mid-sentence.
The poster argues that anyone getting weak results from REA with Claude is running into the same limit, and that Opus and other Claude models are steered away from this kind of task. Replies discuss running other models locally instead.
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- Reddit: The Dream is dead. Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is not likely to work with ClaudePublished
The poster's thread in r/ClaudeCode with a screenshot of the interrupted reply.
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