It is a self-contained runbook with explicit verification gates at every step — preflight checks, building libghidra, installing the LibGhidraHost Ghidra extension, building ghidrasql, and a first live query. Hand it to your agent and let it drive the install; intervene only if a gate reports a failure.
It reads like the author doesn’t know what containers are. Because this is actually a great use case for containers unless I’m missing something.
Now, do I want reverse engineering software from someone who in 2026 doesn’t know of a better way to manage dependencies than “tell AI to install everything”? Not particularly lol
Install Visual Studio 2022, or apt install build-essential / xcode-select --install
NOW distro repo is fine, but only if you use an APT based distro?
and then 3 more dependencies it tells the agent to install from websites.
The weirdest thing is you can get much better results from AI. I’m 99% sure this person gave the AI particularly bad instructions to generate the install instructions, or used a cheap, crappy model.
I think it’s written that way because the instructions are meant to work on Windows too. But it still doesn’t make much sense. I think just saying “Install CMake” and letting the agent figure it out for the current environment would be a much better approach.
Also, I think the model they were using was working with outdated data. Why specifically require Java 21 when Java 25 is the latest LTS? And furthermore, why even link to a specific JDK implementation when it surely works with almost any implementation? Probably just makes the agent install the Temurin implementation even if the system already had a working java.
My point being if the author’s idea is to let AI handle the installation to avoid writing environment-specific instructions, it shouldn’t then have these hardcoded assumptions about the environment. So yeah, it seems they (and the AI that wrote it) didn’t really know what they were doing.
It’s real
https://github.com/0xeb/ghidrasql#install-with-an-ai-agent-recommended
Even the install instructions are written by AI. Good grief
Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of
tar -xaf!This is… uh…
It reads like the author doesn’t know what containers are. Because this is actually a great use case for containers unless I’m missing something.
Now, do I want reverse engineering software from someone who in 2026 doesn’t know of a better way to manage dependencies than “tell AI to install everything”? Not particularly lol
Also:
It’s Eclipse Temurin not Eclipse Adoptium. And why not install from distro repo?
Also why not from distro repo?
NOW distro repo is fine, but only if you use an APT based distro?
and then 3 more dependencies it tells the agent to install from websites.
The weirdest thing is you can get much better results from AI. I’m 99% sure this person gave the AI particularly bad instructions to generate the install instructions, or used a cheap, crappy model.
I think it’s written that way because the instructions are meant to work on Windows too. But it still doesn’t make much sense. I think just saying “Install CMake” and letting the agent figure it out for the current environment would be a much better approach.
Also, I think the model they were using was working with outdated data. Why specifically require Java 21 when Java 25 is the latest LTS? And furthermore, why even link to a specific JDK implementation when it surely works with almost any implementation? Probably just makes the agent install the Temurin implementation even if the system already had a working java.
My point being if the author’s idea is to let AI handle the installation to avoid writing environment-specific instructions, it shouldn’t then have these hardcoded assumptions about the environment. So yeah, it seems they (and the AI that wrote it) didn’t really know what they were doing.
Ai loves outdated versions. It’s what it’s trained on
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