alt Hacker News> There's no way Cloudflare could have pulled this off without next's very own tests.
I'm very uncovinced. History showed us very complex systems reverse engineered without access to the source code. With access to the source code, coupled with the rapid iteration of AI, I don't see any real moat here; at best a slight delay.
Replies
anematode • yesterday at 10:42 PM
Source code is one thing; tests covering the codebase are another.
And if you just copy the source code or translate it one-to-one into a new language, rather than make a behavioral copy, there will be copyright issues.
➕ show 1 reply
root_axis • yesterday at 10:49 PM
The tests are absolutely essential, otherwise there's no signal to guide the LLM towards correct behavior and hallucinations accumulate until any hope of forward progress collapses.
➕ show 1 reply
I have tried to post this here but it has not got traction.
I have a demonstrated process here on my blog (all hand written without AI).
This bit about how to brute force decompilation: https://reorchestrate.com/posts/your-binary-is-no-longer-saf...
And this about how to do the conversion and address the LLM hallucination problem: https://reorchestrate.com/posts/your-binary-is-no-longer-saf...
Yes, it is absolutely possible.