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?
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.
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.
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.
So now a similar approach is being taken to do the same for proprietary applications and games. Fucking hell this is so damn bleak.
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).
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.
I clicked through to the site that was linked in the post, and it seemed pretty legit looking, but maybe it was a ruse. I can’t recall the site/service name now though.
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?
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.
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.
For sure. No human is ever touching that code.
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.
So now a similar approach is being taken to do the same for proprietary applications and games. Fucking hell this is so damn bleak.
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).
Perhaps I ate the onion on that one, but it’s still a legit and active issue despite the service being a farce.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chardet-LLM-Rewrite-Relicense
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
It’s like if Jonathan Swift ended A Modest Proposal by plugging his actual newly-opened butcher shop.
It’s impossible to hate these people enough
I thought that was a joke though, wasn’t it?
I clicked through to the site that was linked in the post, and it seemed pretty legit looking, but maybe it was a ruse. I can’t recall the site/service name now though.