Yesterday I tried to take another crack at reverse engineering my e-scooter. I am don't have the energy to sit down and read through the decompiled android app, so I thought I'd try using Qwen3 Coder next for that but it kept looping when analyzing it, probably due to my terrible prompt. I tried with Mistral Vibe and then OpenCode. OpenCode showed me that the agent was trying to search for all kinds of strings over and over again. I am thinking I'll try yet again this week

I am close to buying a Claude sub but the thought of it going haywire and costing me extra money in tokens is too scary yet. Not to mention how much provider LLMs (not sure on the correct terminology for them as opposed to local) could hamper your reverse engineering efforts (looking at you Fable).

I really want to solve this scooter and have my own app for it. There's a firmware update feature in the app, maybe I could dump the firmware at least and that would help. Anyone have suggestions on what language model would be the best for this task (analyze decompiled and obfuscated android app / analyze dumped firmware ) ? i have a 96gb macbook and would prefer a local one (I guess to make myself feel better for having spent money on it?) but something through OpenRouter or whatever would do just fine as well