> places where you see reverse engineering used, usually to modify existing software.

funnily enough I have a team reverse engineering binary data formats, which is often more easily accomplished by other means + only dropping down to the disassembly/decompilation where absolutely necessary. and which as far as I am aware never involves binary patching

but yeah about the article it seems like if you know this much about assembly / chips etc. to be able to read it, then general problem solving ability should be able to cover most of the article's content