OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code

Re:OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code by lifthrasiir on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:04PM (#41397404)

You are technically true, but I think you should try some reverse engineering to see that it is usually possible to reconstruct much of them in spite of the amount of transformations made. I do understand that this fact might be hard to believe without any prior.

EDIT: I think I got why some comments complain I downplayed the power of LLM here. I never meant to, and I wanted to say that the unminification is a relatively easy task compared to other reverse engineering tasks. It is great we can automate the easy task, but we still have to wait for a better model to do much more.

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Re:OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code by johnfn on Monday September 02, 2024 @02:33PM (#41427749)

I have tried reconstructing minified code (I thought that would be obvious from my example). It feels like it takes just a bit less thought than it did to write the code in the first place, which is definitely not something I would classify as "comparably simple".

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