alt Hacker NewsNot sure why someone would want to use an LLM to build a new decompiler instead of training an LLM to BE a decompiler.
Especially given the fact that you have an infinite training set to train that LLM from (compilers can generate as much training data as you could possibly want).
Yeah, fair question.
I read this less as “build a decompiler with an LLM instead of training one to decompile,” and more as a different loop: you still get an artifact you can measure and improve against IDA / Ghidra / angr. Training on infinite compiler data is powerful for the first path; this post is mostly about the second one (i think, but i could wrong).