The exciting part is using AI to decompile closed-source software, which could potentially enable you to change it and run your own custom version of it.
Imagine, say, doing that with Windows and turning off all the hardcoded telemetry.
you could do that before. there was nothing stopping you, including the law.
the fact that the vibe coded versions barely work at all is a testament to the fact that LLMs do not mean this is any easier now. the hard part isn’t decompiling the software.
The exciting part is using AI to decompile closed-source software, which could potentially enable you to change it and run your own custom version of it.
Imagine, say, doing that with Windows and turning off all the hardcoded telemetry.
We will also see the same sort of AI bugs in closed source stuff that we’ve seen in open source once AI is able to read compiled code
New security exploits, new security exploits everywhere!
you could do that before. there was nothing stopping you, including the law.
the fact that the vibe coded versions barely work at all is a testament to the fact that LLMs do not mean this is any easier now. the hard part isn’t decompiling the software.