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decompiling executables with llms ——

an interesting blogpost by Geoffrey Huntley showing how llms can be used to “decompile” applications with bundled / minified code (and in a following post) they show it can also be done for assembly. i think this is especially interesting (and concerning for the creators) of electron applications, as there’s relatively accessible source code in languages and frameworks that llms are actively being trained on, though i imagine there will be a day that most compiled apps can be undone.

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