Dawn of a Software Openness Era（Contemporary computational cutaway concept art）

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2026-10

Dawn of a Software Openness Era

REA connects reverse-engineering tools to coding agents. An October hands-on test used Opus 5.5 with REA to rebuild an app’s keep-awake feature. We see falling barriers to understanding and reconstruction as the dawn of a software openness era; the original software has not thereby become open source or openly licensed.

Art style · Contemporary computational cutaway concept art

World population

8.35Bpeople

Primary energy power

2×10¹³W

London → New York message

0.03 seconds

Civilization metrics

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Kardashev index

0.731

Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1

World populationEstimate

8.35Bpeople

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Total human primary energy power

2×10¹³W

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Compute per dollar

8.1×10¹⁰floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)

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Fastest delivery time for a message from London to New York

0.03 seconds

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Fastest speed reached by humans

39,897km/h

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2026-10Computing
REA connects reverse-engineering tools to coding agents. An October hands-on test used Opus 5.5 with REA to rebuild an app’s keep-awake feature. We see falling barriers to understanding and reconstruction as the dawn of a software openness era; the original software has not thereby become open source or openly licensed. Source

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