Local vs Frontier on low-level systems engineering

In three linesA r/LocalLLaMA user reports Opus (Claude 3) vastly outperforms local models and GPT for low-level systems engineering. On an AirPlay firmware modification project, only Opus succeeded at mapping firmware structure, reverse-engineering CRC checksums, and automating binary patching, while Qwen 35B and GPT failed at initial stages.

Summary generated by Claude — human-verified