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Finding out they de-compiled Photoshop and ported It to Linux only to find out It's AI vibe coded shite (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 23 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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? picard

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.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago* (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    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.

    monke-rage

    So now a similar approach is being taken to do the same for proprietary applications and games. Fucking hell this is so damn bleak.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago*

    Wasn’t that website a bit?

    The site is https://malus.sh/ and it is definitely satire but I think it also actually sort of does what it says it does (albeit surely not as reliably as they imply). 404media says that it is "satire but also fully functional", at least.

    The creators of the site launched it with this (CW: slop-heavy) FOSDEM talk: Let's end open source together with this one simple trick

    oooaaaaaaauhhh

    It's like if Jonathan Swift ended A Modest Proposal by plugging his actual newly-opened butcher shop.

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