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Re:Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes decompilat... by crazygringo on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:29AM (#35677072)
I can't help but think that might be something a ChatGPT-type tool could be extremely helpful at.

Trained on enough code, couldn't it figure out reasonable enough names from the structure of the code?

On the other hand, it might not work at all if short functions tend to be incredibly generic, and all the real meaning is tied up in the nonlocal organization of it all.

And then of course you need context to know what the nouns and verbs are at all. I can imagine similar structures involving Luigis and Koopas, or invoices and payments.

Re:Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes decompilat... by circuit10 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @12:16PM (#35677536)
I want to try this but the context problem seems a bit hard to solve, you probably need to have a mental model of the whole program at once
Re:Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes decompilat... by nicolas_17 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @06:45PM (#35681455)
Gee I'm sure nobody thought of using AI for that before /s