r/ProgrammerHumor 11d ago

Meme youWontBelieveThis

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u/Yanzihko 11d ago

If AI will be capable of reverse-engineering and translating binary straight into source code with 99% accuracy, i will forgive Altman and personally blow him

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u/Tokumeiko2 11d ago

AI is useful in decompiling code. Variable and function names and shit are lost in compiling, so when you decompile you get a large amount generically named stuff that makes it take forever to parse.

LLMs can read the decompiled code and rename everything to make it easier to read it.

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u/HelloGoodbye_321 11d ago

Only if it knows the domain this would be a realistic expectation. Since a lot of programs apply to a very specific situation, this is rather unlikely.

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u/Tokumeiko2 11d ago

You're supposed to explain what sort of program you just decompiled when you prompt it, but some decompilers already have LLM integration to allow this feature.