The AI patched two decade-old bugs inside a shipped Windows binary

Fed the Windows Remote Desktop binary to the AI, which patched two decade-old bugs (NOPs and a stack offset fix); the fix worked.

How it works

He feeds the remote desktop binary to the AI
It patches two decade-old bugs, with byte edits and a stack offset fix
The fix works

Why it’s worth knowing

No source code, no vendor, no problem: the binary was enough.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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