Hi, I’m Mathieu Renard. I’m the founder of Twisted Wires, and I work on embedded systems, reverse engineering, and hardware/software co-design.
Most of what I do lives at a pretty low level — trying to understand how systems really behave, not just how they’re supposed to. That can mean digging into firmware, doing fault injection, building custom tooling, or just finding ways to interact with hardware in ways it wasn’t really designed for.
I spend a lot of time building tools — sometimes glitchers, sometimes emulators, sometimes extensions to reverse engineering tools — and more recently, integrating AI into that workflow.
At Twisted Wires, we’ve started using AI on a daily basis. But bringing it in wasn’t just about plugging in a model and calling it a day — it forced us to step back and ask some pretty fundamental questions. What do we actually trust it with? What should stay fully manual? And how do we make sure we don’t lose understanding in the process?
At the end of the day, I care a lot about precision, reproducibility, and making complex systems easier to reason about — not just by explaining them, but by building tools that let you see what’s really going on.
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