RIP decomp.dev. AI is claiming scalps.
The website decomp.dev said Thursday that it is shutting down because “the community aspect of decompilation has been broken” by AI, and that projects that once required intense collaboration between people with different skills can now be done trivially with AI. The administrator of the website said that it has become impossible to keep track of which projects are primarily human-led and which ones are done by AI.
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https://www.404media.co/video-game-reverse-engineering-community-shuts-down-because-ai-has-made-it-too-easy/
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Communities like ours dealing with non trivial protections will be the last man standing. AI wont trivially conduct creation of vital tools to deal with advanced anti debugger techniques or virtualization or packed and encrypted binaries etc. Vibe kiddies wont know to step back and do a focused software effort to unravel a binary layer by layer. But for sure all but advanced reversing is automated to an absurd level of even source recovery that is near byte identical when recompiled. Lots os signs that we are adapting and honestly I think ot is exciting. Reversing as a mindset and talent and hobby etc is not going away. But it is transitioning like msny fields are.