The Game Reverse Engineering Community Is The Latest Casualty Of AI
Members cared less about understanding, more about speed.
One of the largest video game decompilation communities, decomp.dev, has begun sunsetting its website, citing artificial intelligence as the root cause. The announcement was made by administrator "@encounter," who stated the community aspect of reverse-engineering games has been "broken" by the reliance on AI models and their speed. The website was initially created as a fun way to gamify what could otherwise feel like a tedious process, letting users see their progress on a game's code steadily tick up over time. Now, he says it's become nothing but a "hollow numbers game."
Decompilation is the process of taking the executable code of a game and changing it back into its original form. The compiled code is what's read by an operating system to run the game, but the initial code is normally in a common programming language like C++. Reverse engineering...
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