acidburn [he/him, comrade/them]
memesThere's so many AI slop decomps right now, it fucking sucks. There's a lot of people that doesn't even understand the basics of coding doing it just to get these stuff running and it's so obvious it is gonna be abandoned because the prompter doesn't even know how to fix the bugs people file for their projects.
This is specially bad in the game decomp scene. Good thing there are actual good recomps/decomps being made, like SymphonyRecomp and MediEvilRecomp.
I get using AI to help with the more repetitive stuff and under really strict supervision, but there's way too many stuff just entirely vibecoded right now.
install GIMP
So vibe-code LLM decompile is a thing now? You feed the compiled binaries into the LLM and it makes source code based on statistical models I'm assuming is how this is supposed to work?
Seems like just using LLM hacking agents to get the source code from the owners is probably a more effective approach. Desloppiled Code is just going to be a huge mess every time I'd imagine.
The dev claims they are making a clean room replacement not a decompilation.
Clean room usually means having one person/team reverse engineer a product, write a detailed specification and have another person/team implement that specification so that it's not contaminated with copyrighted material.
I have my doubts about the clean room part but it's believable that it's not a decompilation project that aims to come close to the original code structure.
Desloppiled Code is just going to be a huge mess every time I'd imagine.
For sure. No human is ever touching that code.
Oh, I recall seeing a post months ago about this LLM clean room approach being promoted as a service to "help remove license restrictions" on open source projects. They would deliver you a new chunk of code as a drop-in replacement for "restrictive license" existing code.
So now a similar approach is being taken to do the same for proprietary applications and games. Fucking hell this is so damn bleak.
Wasn't that website a bit? Not that it's hard to believe that this would exist (as a commercial service, we know people are doing this with coding agents).
Perhaps I ate the onion on that one, but it's still a legit and active issue despite the service being a farce.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chardet-LLM-Rewrite-Relicense
I thought that was a joke though, wasn't it?
I clicked through to the site that was linked in the post, and it seemed pretty legit looking, but maybe it was a ruse. I can't recall the site/service name now though.
I feel like GUI coding would actually be pretty LLM friendly if it were paired with hard constraints and interaction trees (that were done manually or with a framework, the latter being much better for accessibility). Unfortunately people seem to mostly just take whatever it gets and say, "looks nice" and ship it.
If the app compiles to the same binary, it is not vibecoded, just the original code, I guess they just fed the model how the app is supposed to work and the binary so the LLM just guesses the library dependencies and some strings if the Adobe binary is not obfuscated
My hope is that this type of shit leads to better decompile techniques not using LLMs. I watched a video that said that one of these decompiled vibecoded apps cost $180k in tokens on a $200/month plan
I watched a video that said that one of these decompiled vibecoded apps cost $180k in tokens on a $200/month plan
For that much you could probably pay a team of coders.
Who is dropping $200k to "decompile" photoshop
nobody, "$180k in tokens" doesn't actually mean $180k is changing hands at any point in this process
A decompile of sonic the fighters came out for pc and it was only up for a day before being taken down. It was vibe coded and didn't even work right.
