Defeating AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering (or at Least Trying To)

At the beginning of 2026, a customer told us something along the lines of: obfuscation is finished, LLM-assisted reverse engineering breaks it. They had a walkthrough to back it up, produced by their own tooling, in which a model took one of their obfuscated libraries apart and recovered its hidden strings. They were not right, but not entirely wrong either. So we spent a couple of weeks on the follow-up question: if a coding agent with a shell is now part of the threat model, what protection st...