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points by xyzsparetimexyz 1 day ago | 0 comments

> I’m hoping that smarter models (surely Fable 5.5 is dropping any moment now) can do a breakthrough to reverse compile games more efficiently.

This seems like an oxymoron, no? What is Fable going to do that makes decompilation easier apart from chewing through token budget like there's no tomorrow? Perhaps if it internalized codegen patterns for EVERY compiler and EVERY permutation of flags, or wrote a decompiler for the same, but like..

[–] tancop 12 hours ago

Decompiling into readable code that gives you the exact same binary and probably matches what the developers wrote is a lot more complicated. You need a human expert or equivalent AI to do it. Deterministic tools will almost always give you code that looks like trash or doesn't compile at all.