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refulgentisyesterday at 9:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Agents are sort of irrelevant to this discussion, no?

Like, it's assuredly harder for an agent than having access to the code, if only because there's a theoratical opportunity to misunderstand the decompile.

Alternatively, it's assuredly easier for an agent because given execution time approaches infinity, they can try all possible interpretations.


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oofbeyyesterday at 10:13 PM

Agents meaning an AI iteratively trying different things to try to decompile the code. Presumably in some kind of guess and check loop. I don’t expect a typical LLM to be good at this on its first attempt. But I bet Cursor could make a good stab at it with the right prompt.