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Quantum Lock suspends sales due to developers losing access to source code
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A good decompiler and an auto-formatter might leave them with a nicer copy of their source code than they had in the first place.
The time at which the source code was lost is irrelevant for decompilation, decompilation uses the binary files. Those are the files that are out there being played right now.
Until recently decompilers tended to produce rough and useless code for the most part, but I'm looking forward to seeing what modern LLMs will bring to decompilation. They could be trained specifically for the task.
You're missing the point of the comment you're replying to, which is that the devs don't understand decompilers RIGHT NOW, and it's formatted in a tongue in cheek way similar to their current comment about VCS
Great. Hallucinated decompiled code.
I'm all for AI, but there's gotta be a better way for machines to become intelligent. Not just "training and predicting without any thought in the process."
You're welcome to try other methods but LLMs seem to be working best so far.
With a decompiler it should be pretty straightforward to automatically check for "hallucinations," the compiled code is still right there and you can compare the decompiled logic to the original.
You have a point. I guess we could compile the decompiled code and compare the binaries.
I like how you're willing to comment on things you completely don't understand. That shows chutzpah.
Read it enough times so that you uncover the comment's true meaning. If you give up, I can give you a tip.
Have you actually read my post?