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MixedClaude · 15 Oct 2026

The moat of hardware effects processors has just vanished

valdiorn on Hacker News

ONE-SHOT decompiled 3 of my main competitors products

In the thread “Using AI to reverse engineer hardware”

Helped: One-shot decompilation of competitor firmware and algorithms.

Got in the way: Loss of competitive advantage as moat vanished.

… While I'm not going to do that, I know there are 30 Chinese companies that happily would. The moat of hardware effects processors has just vanished.